A sigh, as I sit here and catch up on the blog… The last of the summer birthday parties came to an end today and now I just have to get caught up with the last week of activities. Cezanne is demanding more and more attention and is really showing great progress. The talking is now really talking as she is putting together 3 and 4 word sentences and we are drumming “Please” and “Thank You” into her with each chance we get. Some days she gets it and we praise and kiss and hug when she asks for something with a “pees, Daddy” and then replies after getting what she asked for with a “tank you Daddy” and no prompting is needed… Other times a little prompting is needed but she gets it.

She is clearly now in full blown boundary pushing mode, at every opportunity she is out to test us and see just how far she can push before we snap. I think the score is much like the medal count at the Olympics… We might look at things as the USA and feel like we are winning, but then we look again and see that Cezanne is China and really when it comes down to it, she wins where it counts. “Silver and Bronze are good colors too and go with so many things” we tell ourselves…

So here are the updates from this last week or so…