Mornings with Michael

Back to back posts! I'm a roll here; the end of the college basketball season has significantly cut down the time I waste on UNC message boards. But don't get used to this level of output. It will not be sustainable in the long term. This post is just to show what I encounter when I go in to get Michael first thing in the morning. He's usually standing up, but this morning I caught on him just before he stood up. He still wears his sleep sack which makes it a little tricky. Just seconds before this video, he went head first into the bars.
He usually wakes up in a good mood as he did this morning.

Another very cute thing that he does and which we're just getting around to documenting is to nod yes to questions. Here is a video I took with my camera this morning, which unfortunately doesn't have any sound. If it did, you would hear me asking Michael, "Do you love Dada?" (nod), "Do you love Mama?" (nod). We went through the entire family like this and he nodded for everyone!

Near the end of the video (at 1:05), when you see him smile widely, it's because I asked him if he loved his cousin Chandler! As soon as I said her name, he got so happy! Later in the morning we did the same routine with the video camera, so as soon as we learn how to download videos from the camera to the computer, we'll post it with the sound. In the meantime we are enjoying that fact that he has not yet learned to say no, but we know the day (...the year?...the years?) is coming when that's about all he'll be saying!