South side David

David continues to grow, learn and amuse. He has lots to say but some interesting sentence structure. Recently he has taken to exclaiming "My oh gosh!" He has also clearly memorized parts of his favorite books and now declares "Day or night, never stop working!" in a sing-songy voice when we open his truck book. (The first sentence is "Day or night, trucks never stop working.) I'm catching more and more snippets of Mandarin now, and when he's not bouncing off the walls, he is a good little student.
We are giving potty training a go, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's another 6 months or so before we actually declare victory. He is a boy, after all. He made it all the way through today in underwear for Alma and proudly told me that he got candy (one M&M) for going pee on the potty, and after she left promptly peed and pooped in his underwear for me and Kevin.
His latest adventures include a trip downtown to Millennium Park and the Art Institute where he and Alma ran into our friend Dalia and her son Gabe. Both boys were apparently very excited to see each other. We're going to see Gabe again after Mandarin class on Friday.
Checking out the choo choos and the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park

Wednesday night we went to the Cubs game. In addition to our usual ride on the green line, we got to take the red line which goes underground. This has pretty much ruined the green line experience for David as he's asked about going underground every time we've taken the train since.

Kevin and David at various spots in and around Wrigley. Please note that David insisted on wearing his White Sox shirt to the Cubs game. He is very south side.

We made a repeat trip to Millennium Park on Saturday. David frolicked in water that I could barely stick my toes in for fear of frostbite.

A few shots from David's Cloudgate ("the bean") photo shoot

That night we went to fireworks night at Sox Park. Such a fun park to take kids. David had the usual--a few innings of baseball until the junk food ran out, Fundamentals where he practiced his base running and fielding, more food, then back to our seats for fireworks. This time he made it about 15 seconds in to the fireworks display and decided he was done.