My Big Boy

I haven't done an update on Tate in a while. He's growing up so fast! It may be a little premature to say that Tate is potty trained, but for the last week he has been wearing training pants and underwear. He still has accidents, but only because he's stubborn. Most of the time it is adult directed. We make him sit against his will. Nine times out of ten resulting in him going. Then there are the times that he runs to the potty chair himself or tells you he needs to go. Most of the time he does really well, except when it comes to poop and of course we still have nap time and bedtime diapers. Other than that, most of the stash downsized to a small setting for Mayer.

He is still obsessed with space ships, rockets, astronauts and even cosmonauts. Last week, he went to the cosmosphere with Aunt Taylor and his cousins. He should be really excited here, but we are pretty sure my sister captured his face as he realized he was having an accident!

Tate's vocabulary has been expanding in leaps and bounds. So much so that we found out his speech therapist is going to be releasing him from the program just in time to start preschool in the fall! He will have to have a final evaluation. The main focus now is to get him to refer to himself in first person rather than third.
Here's an example of just how far he has come. On Saturday mornings, we usually go to garage sales with my mom and brother. One garage sale had a picture of Bigfoot. They thought it would be fun to teach him to say, "sasquatch." He gets a little tongue-tied, but it comes out fairly well!

We are all ready for spring. Tate keeps saying, "springtime coming!" Every time he hears the term, "Eastern time," he thinks it is, "Easter time" and gets really excited. He is convinced the Easter Bunny is going to bring him some more Thomas trains for his track. One of his favorite spring activities is to visit chicks, ducklings and bunnies at the local farm stores. Michael keeps him on one of his day's off during the week and it is a special treat just to go look.

 I am always afraid he's going to jump in with them!

Just a few random pictures:

His hair is getting kind of long.

Reading to Mayer.

This box was a basketball goal, space ship and jack-in-the-box.