Round 34 brought some pretty incredible gains along with it. Nicholas was incredible during the round – absolutely incredible.

He started finishing sentences which blew us away. It hit us instantly when he did because we then knew – he UNDERSTOOD what he was hearing. I wanted to jump for joy with it. Sometimes, you just dont know if they understand or not — you think they don’t but then they do — or you think they do and they really don’t – but this nailed it for us.

He’s been singing all kinds of songs. I only heard the ABC song out of him. When seeing a picture of a birthday cake, he launched into Happy Birthday and sang the whole song. I came running because I could not believe it. He sang it again for me on request perfectly from beginning to end. Other songs include those from Wubbzy… You’re a Star, you’re a star, yeah yeah a superstar….

He started complimenting us. Mommy, your hair looks nice. Daddy, I like your shirt. (Where this came from, I dont know – but we are a complimentary family, so perhaps he’s picked some things up or perhaps it’s genetic stemming from Grandma’s genes)

My hair has gotten way too long once again and my bangs were covering my eyes. I was promptly told, “mommy you need a haircut, can I cut your hair?”

He’s changing lyrics to songs on us. If we sing something to him — he sings it back changing the lyrics — and he’s funny. I am so jealous of people who can do this kind of thing on the fly – never thought Nicholas would be one of those with this ability.

His level of pretend play has reached a new plateau. While in the bath, he will say “look mommy, I’m a whale” he will put water in his mouth and spit it out like he’s blowing water out like a whale. We have never seen him pretend to be someone/something else before.

He’s doing things to be deliberately funny. He will call grandpa daddy and vice versa and when he’s corrected, he laughs hysterically.

He’s actually patient, which is something that’s been getting better — but boy, this is something that shows us how far he has come. His reward toy (see the next update) is sitting in the livingroom in the box. He wanted to open it and I said tomorrow. He said okay and has not asked again. Had this been a year ago – there would have been screaming, tantrums, crying and who knows what else before we would have said enough and opened it. Had this been a year ago – I would not have been able to even bring the box in the house because I knew what would happen if I had said tomorrow.

Here’s the biggie – Nicholas is almost potty trained. He is going both poopy and pee-pee on the potty — and boy is he really trying. He’s not 100% yet — but since we’ve only been pushing it since this past Saturday, I am so impressed and thankful. The diapers are gone during the day. He went to school the past 2 days in underpants. Yesterday, he had an accident at school and came home in a diaper. Today, he came home in his undies!!!!!!! In the past three days, he got 35 stickers to fill his chart and get his special toy that he picked out. I made a sticker chart with a picture of that toy – and to be honest, I did not think he “got it” when it came to putting together all the stickers and the toy — but he totally got it now. We really started pushing it on Saturday – and he spent the day in his big boy underpants. Gymboree had the cutest undies and I found a pair with trains on them. (this is what I think did it to be honest) — once he felt how good the undies felt, he would not allow us to put a diaper on him Saturday night. It was a struggle – but he would have been soaked, so I had to sneak the diaper into the undies and then put them on. That he was okay with. I prayed he would not want to continue that, but the next morning, he asked for his train undies again. (I may have to go buy a 2nd pair!)