Make My Monday

The "S" theme continues...guess who learned how to use scissors!!

This week..."S" is for sentences

Oh yes, the floodgates are opening...the words are flowing. Sentences are growing...we started with three words...
"Sit here mommy"
"Daddy fix it"
And then came four...
"Mommy, more juice please"
Here comes five...
"Daddy, try Van's orange juice"
And today it was six...count 'em six words in a sentence spoken straight from the potty seat...
"Three big poops out Van's butt"...
Oh yeah, did we mention that potty training is complete too...what an awesome summer we are having.

Hail to our Super cute Speaking Superhero boy!

"S" is for Socks

Van's speech has really taken off in the past few weeks...it could be the fact that we go for therapy 4 times a week now and that he spends hours and hours with two of the cutest chattiest twins around...it's all working. He's up to 4 and 5 word sentences now...of course sentence structure is another matter. But Daddy and I understand almost 100% of his words now and both speech therapists are very pleased with his progress.
Yesterday we worked on the letter "S" so in honor of "S"...here's some cute Silly Socks Scenes...

Way Back When-esday

Well not really way back but as way back as we get around here...a look back to Van's very first 4th of July celebration...

I am the Yankee Doodle boy

4th of July...fast becoming my favorite holiday. Van just loves it and it's the first real holiday we celebrated with him. Our neighborhood does a good old fashion block party celebration...the kids run wild, everyone brings their favorite pyrotechnic devices and we just hang out and enjoy the summer night. Van got crafty this year too thanks to Fairy godmother's summer boxes of fun.

Nobody else like him, he's unique -this one. How fortunate we are that he is our son.

Van's future girlfriend, Ada came for a visit to get him in touch with his arts and literature side....





but of course after her departure...he needed a good dose of "boy" which calls for a trip to the pond...

Fairy Godmother

Yes Van has one and her name is Aunt Beth...she's known around here for finding the coolest most fun stuff for Van. She surprised him with not one, not two, but three "summer" goodie boxes...it looked like the summer version of Christmas around here.

and of course the bubble wrap is always a huge hit!