And Ten Things About This One

1. We think of him as an Italian opera. (everything is done with passion, whether he is mad or sad or gleefully happy.)
2. He really does make us laugh. He has a teasing sort of humor, which I think comes from the older Olson generation.
3. He was at the library today using the word "frog". Only his pronunciation included the letter "f", but with u-c-k at the end. Yep. It caused a teenage girl to look around the corner at him and then his embarrassed mother. We will work on pronunciation...
4. It is very satisfying to get him to laugh at a silly something-or-other, because he has a laugh that comes from his toes.
5. He reads books while in the car, and it makes him look like a commuter on the train.
6. He blows kisses to things if he likes them. There was a book of tractors that we had, and each tractor would get a kiss on each page.
7. He is very particular about what he sleeps with in his bed. He has a puppet crow, a stuffed dog, and two sock monkeys. You don't mess with the system...
8. He has taken some AMAZING falls while at play. I'm talking sequences that a Hollywood choreographer would love to orchestrate: Tripping that leads to what looks like a pirouette with a twist that brings him down on his face. And he usually turns out fine!
9. He is hard work!
10. I love him.