Our testy little talker

Our littlest family member is developing a little 'tude these days.  His favorite thing at every mealtime is to refuse food and talk up a storm.  The talking is interrupted only when he decides to sing, yell, or hit my hand away from his face, causing the spoon full of rice to jerk upward and rice flying everywhere in the restaurant.  He thinks he's so smart!  But luckily I know just how to crack a smile and in goes the food before he knows what's happening.

 We think he's starting to understand the meaning of the word "Mama", too.  He crawls after me repeating "mamamamama" so I'm thinking there is some connection going on in that little brain of his with those syllables and his favorite person in the room.

And lastly, we've been taking full advantage of our realization that there are huge water parks for each "community" in the Grosse Pointes.  There's one for each separate Pointe (Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Woods, GP Shores, you get the idea) and they are beautiful and all have different amenities but have some type of pool, recreation area with tennis court, outdoor area, nice concessions, and a marina on the lake.  We visited the GP Farms park recently and so far it's the nicest I've been to!  Perfect for little kids.  If we stay in this area and move to a bigger house I definitely would consider looking solely in the Farms if not just for their park access.  Can you say splash pad, beautiful grounds, nice baby wading pool, beach, and outdoor tot lot playground?  Baby heaven.  Our pool/park in the Woods community is better for older kids because it has a gigantic water slide but we have Wally's Frozen Custard company that runs the concession stand so that might outweigh the other amenities, in my opinion at least!

 ^^ Seriously...can you believe we have like...4 of these parks within a 5 minute drive of our house?  All looking similarly to this?  And we have free access to one plus free access to any if we go to the other community parks with a guest.  There's a lot to love about the east side of this state after all! ^^