Greeeeeen Machiiiiiiiiiiine!!

Oh, what a night!

We're still working out the kinks, if you will, of getting Sabi to settle himself and go to sleep in his room in less than...say, 3 hours. Tonight he went through the bedtime routine pretty quickly and without much pain. Hooray for us! I stayed in the office (next to his room) just to make sure he would calm down and sleep ok and he happily (LOUDLY) chatted and chatted and read to himself. After about 20 min., I decided to go downstairs to join Dario and peeked in to make sure he was ok. I spied him sitting next to his bed, reading books to himself. Ok, I thought, no problem, as long as he's safe he'll find a way to "wind down" eventually. Just as I'm thinking this, my little man turns to climb into his bed and I notice...no diaper, no pants, just a bare butt! Alas, I intervened, explained why it's important to wear pants to bed, settled him back into bed. The chatting got quieter. After about 10 minutes, D & I were almost ready to congratulate ourselves on a successful bedtime. D went to check in and, well, this is what he found...NO idea where the green marker came from!!!

More Michigan...

A few more from our trip. Note the last picture, in front of East Quad (wahoo! 407 EQ Cooley!!). The dear, darling husband is wearing a "Vamos Azul" shirt (Go Blue) and son wearing "Tigers fan". Yeah, we tried to dress the part.

Homecoming!

So we don't have a lot of pictures...most of those are on Tia Ali's camera, but we made a big drive to Michigan in mid-August to see Thomas the Train visiting Crossroads Village. As luck would have it, Jim, Kisandra, Gabe & Katelynn were visiting, too! So we saw lots of family and had lots of fun. The weather was unbelievably nice and Sabi was surprisingly tolerant of the loooong trip in the car.

Big boy room!

Someone's got a big boy room!

Thanks to Carrie, Jeff, Nico & Amy, Dario and I were able to put finishing touches on what used to be the office and is now Sabi's Big Boy room! (ahem, pictures of the office when it comes together in...oh, a year or so) We picked up a toddler bed on freecycle and Sabi picked out a color to paint it (Dragon Fire Orange!!). THen, we got a little crazy with the wall decals and...voila! Thanks, also, to Carrie for the door letters.