Cute Stuff from Michael

As Michael was preparing to enter school in first grade, he read a letter from his new teacher which explained some of what he could expect early in the year. He then bragged to the family that, “We’re going to have team leaders. We are going to learn a song on first day!” The rest of us lamented that we had not learned a song on the first day in our schools. August, 2006.

Michael loves to take apart anything mechanical or electronic. We save up broken appliances for him to work on. One day, one of us came home to hear him say, “Apparently I took apart the DVD today…what does apparently mean, anyway?” Summer, 2006.

Michael enjoys walks and bike rides and “Big Rig” rides (his plastic semi vehicle with pedals). Dad would often take him out for a “Weed and Walk” in which the parent pulls weeds in the yard for a few minutes with Michael loading up the trunk of the Big Rig with the “detritus” and then going off on the ride/walk. Frequently, these perambulations would have the additional task of picking up trash along the road or counting cigarette butts (to instill a horror of littering and smoking, apparently). Summer of 2006