In case you don’t follow me on Instagram or Facebook, I am happy to report that Stevie is back in school! He got the all clear from the health department – the E Coli is completely out of his system – and he can now resume his usual activities, which include, but are not limited to:

• school
• swimming
• dumping his car collection all over the house multiple times a day
• screaming at me when the wrong song comes on the radio
• wanting “mommy hugs”
• smashing gadoo’s head
• parks and playgrounds
• going out to eat
• collecting sticks
• throwing socks at people’s faces
• making us set up car tracks that take 20 minutes to build and 15 seconds to get bored of
• stomping on the floor
• going to the griffith park train 4 times in one week
• slamming cupboards
• closing mom’s computer while she’s trying to update her blog
• crying for like everything
• saying “hey mom, i’m talking to you!”
• parking his toy cars on his pillow before he falls asleep
• getting angry at the iPad when the cars on YouTube don’t do what he wants
• wanting to eat every 10 minutes
• looking out the window, waiting for dad to get home from work
• getting unreasonably angry when i don’t buy him a carrot juice
• facetime with anyone who will answer
• bending over and making fart sounds
• calming himself with breathing exercises
• wanting the car windows down so he can yell at strangers

Oh life with Stevie.  There’s never a dull moment.  Thank God for those 2 little hours he’s at at school.  And when he asks for “mommy hugs”.  I will eat him up with those little saving graces.  We also started behavioral training this week and the first thing I learned is the sessions are more for me than him.  I’m a work in progress as his mom with so, so much to learn.  Help meeeeee.