So, I have not updated for a LONG time, but I have been busy training at work! I'm going to try and be better about it now. Nick has been just amazing us every single day lately. The other day, I was talking to Allen on the phone and heard Nick in the background say, "I want paper.......please dada!" I was SHOCKED! Who would've thought that Nick would speak a 5 word, unprompted sentence?!?! Also, when we got into the minivan the other day, he said "Grandma." I thought he was just talking about his video he was watching and said, "Yeah, yeah, Grandma." So, if you can imagine Nick's little voice in a tone like "OMG my mother is an idiot," he says, "I WANT GRANDMA!" I was speechless. We were actually planning to go to Monkey Bizness to let him run off a little extra energy and Grandma was at a cooking class. So I said, "Nick, would you rather go to Monkey Bizness or go see Grandma?" "MONKEY" LOL Sorry Grandma, but you can't compete!
The day of the Monkey Bizness trip was actually quite the experience. We had to get out of the house because I was afraid I might throttle Nick if we stayed home. I had gone upstairs for just a few minutes to do laundry and Allen was in the bedroom talking to me. I came back downstairs to Nick, with a huge grin on his face....he says "I color." Yup....he colored me a huge, beautiful, purple sun....in permanent maker.....on my living room carpet. He was so darn proud of his picture that I couldn't punish him, but I also knew that we needed to get out of the house right away. As soon as we got to Monkey Bizness, we discovered that he had peed completely through his pull up and his shorts. Of course, we had nothing to change him into. So, we changed his pull up and went to Carter's in the mall where he promptly got a new pair of shorts....sigh. After a good hour and a half at Monkey Bizness, we decided to go next door and check out Toys R' Us. Nick has been talking obsessively about roller skating, so we thought we'd check out the skates. We have no idea where he got the idea to roller skate or if he even really knew what it was. Sure enough, as soon as I said, "Nick, do you want to come look at skates?" He abandoned the train table, grabbed my hand and dragged me in the direction of the skates. We put a pair on him and he held daddy's hand while happily skating (and falling) all over the store. He had a huge grin on his face and he kept saying, "roller skate and I skate." He was so excited that we had to buy him a pair. It was too late to use them that night, but you better believe that he broke them out immediately after getting home from school the very next day!!
Speaking of school, we were waiting for the bus this morning and it was pouring rain outside. I said, "Nick, what's the weather like?" He looks outside and back to me and says, "It raining!" I was so proud of him! Then he tells me, "It cloudy." WOW!! He has just been having a little word explosion lately. I can't believe all the things he's being saying! I know he has a long way to go and I know he is not where a typical 4 year old would be, but he's exactly where he can be. He is working so hard and accomplishing so much. I truly never imagined that he could come this far in just one year! Dreamed maybe, hoped maybe and prayed maybe, but never never really believed. I have so much hope for Nick and his future. He makes me tear up almost every day lately :) Just the other day, he was walking by me and he stopped, looked me directly in the eyes, waved and said "Hi Mommy!" I know that there are many mothers who will never hear the word Mommy from their child's lips or who will only ever hear it if they prompt a child to say it. Yes.....I am a lucky one.
