time flies...

Indeed things seem to be moving at break-neck speed lately. I have graduated to Official Fire-Fighter here at my office, which means I am the one most frequently receiving the "OMG, it's broken and we have a client on the way here in 10 minutes" or the "OMG, the whole system is down" notifications. Nice to know that people have recognized me as a problem-solver. Bad thing is there are no longer any freebies. Seems like very problem lately has been a complicated mix of computer wizardry, human error and good, old-fashioned timing.

On the home front, things have picked up as well. The boy is excited for the nice weather, as it provides him with additional play opportunities outside. He has a TON of energy which must be burned off on a daily basis or it may be expressed inside the house in the form of exploring, finding, examining, and attempting to test the durability of any number of toys or household items.

He has a hold of a great number of words which have now been properly been associated with their definitions, instead of simple sounds. He can now correctly identify his shoes, pants, coat, shirt, a ball, the outside, and lots more. He has started to babble together sentences which is cool because we can now teach him to turn the words he knows into lots more.

Now the bad part. Along with "no" the boy has officially started to resist simple instructions. Even ones like eating. He may be hungry, but if he's decided to nto eat, that's the end of it. We also had a biting incident at day care the other day. The day care manager let me know that all the kids in the class seems to be picking it up (apparently due to one particularly evil child in the class, though she declines to name who) so I'm hopeful this was the exception, not the rule.

I think Mother Theresa said it best when she said "I know God would not give me anything I couldn't handle. I just wish sometimes He didn't trust me so much."

- kb