It seems like forever, but it's barley a year and a half. You'd think all firsts have happened, but really, they haven't. I get bits and pieces, a little glimpse, of Andres' past every once in a while. Little details that just seem to pop into his head. It's cool he shares them with me. His memories are so random. They are fun to hear. Searching for soda cans in garbage cans and on the streets was a recent memory. I'm tearing up thinking they were doing it for food. Nope, not so much, him and his street eurchants pitched in to buy a playstation. (Or so he reports!)
Our laughs this month include the fact that he puts EVERYTHING back empty. I'm talkin' ice cream containers, egg cartons, bags of chips and even the box of Saran wrap! It's annoying, but I'm laughing. Really, why get mad? Someday I'll miss thinking there's an empty box of Oreos waiting for me. Gotta enjoy it while I got it!
Halloween was fun. I took him out for an hour. After about 10 houses he'd yell "Trick or Treat. Yeah! Just one". For some reason the neighbors were shocked he rolled solo. Anyway...It started to rain about half way in. We kept going. Upon our return home he organized all the candy into piles. Super fun. We played some tricks on the kids that came to our house...by trying to hand out carrots instead of candy. It was a blast.
English is rockin'. Now he talks to the TV. It's great. For example, an ad will come on for a dentist office...saying "Come in and visit us."...Andres answers back! He'll say, "Sure...see ya tomorrow." Or "Sorry, no time this week." Or, "What will I get?" It's hilarious!
He's not a good keeper of secrets. He's been begging me for money. Begging my parents for money too. He works for it, at least. I asked him what he "needed". He said he wanted to buy someone new controls for their PSP3. I told him that was a pretty generous gift. Maybe he could think of something "cheaper". He said it was for me so his "cracker mom" could learn how to dance. I just adore my son!
Well, I'm sure there is more, but I'll end it for now.
As always, thanks for your time. Thanks for reading.
