Amazement

Hello All,

I think my main word for motherhood right now is amazement.  Aiden literally amazes me everyday.  He has seemed to pick up so many things since this past weekend.  He now gives bumps (fist bumps instead of high fives) and will say bump when he does it. I think this just melts Adams heart :).  Aiden has started saying bite and seems more in tune with his actually hunger and letting us know.

Earlier today I said lets go out so he brought me his shoes and sat down for me to put them on and then got mine like her normally does.  But then for the first time today he grabbed my car keys and gave them to me so we could go out.  He just picked that up on his own!  So we headed to the park.  He walked down to the sidewalk and right to the water fountain to get a drink.  After that we headed around the building to the park (and he knows right where to go!).  The park we go to has two little swingsets I guess you would call them,.  They are two separate ones, each one enclosed by landscape pavers.   He played on the first one for a few minutes and then headed to the second one.  I guess its the simple things but it amazes how he walks over the little entrance to walk out and then walks over to the entrance in the other playset to play.  There is a little wall (think rock climbing wall for teeny tiny kids), on the bottom "step" there is a bunch of mulch, before he even steps on it he takes his hand to clean off the mulch so he can step on it.  So smart!

Aiden is at such a fun, exploring, climbing age!  It truly amazes me how he picks up on every little thing (which means Adam and I need to be more careful!!).  It is so cool to watch our little baby boy change and become *sniff* a full grown toddler.