Melt My Heart

There are times when I want to strangle my new two year old.  I have no one to blame but myself since he is an emotional copy of me AND as his parents I am responsible for molding his behavior.  However, this morning was something that I want to remember for a long long time.  Ryan went to wake him up and see if he wanted a shower and he said "no thank you" and he stayed in a bed.  A few minutes later I heard him yelling throught he monitor "mooommmmmyyy".  When I got upstairs he said "mommy, LAY DOWN" in the sternest 2 year old voice he could muster.  Since PJ had been up since 6:15 and was now securely in his highchair with some "krispies" I was not going to argue with G, i could use a few more minutes of sleep.  When I got in bed with him, he scooched over as close as he possibly could to me, nestled his head under my neck and just laid there.  He didn't say anything, just laid still, which is a miracle all on its own.  I rubbed his head and asked if he was feeling okay, then he looked at me, put his hand on my cheek and said "I love you mommy" and my heart melted.

Looks Who's 2!!!

I can hardly believe that 2 years ago today I was holding a "tiny" baby boy in my arms.    The past two years have been an amazing journey for Ryan and I. We are so very lucky to have a healthy, [usually] very happy, smart, friendly, funny 2 year old.

Daddy and Graham on the way to school!

Next time I'll put the name and number a little higher!

Words our children will never need to know

Graham has an amazing vocabulary for a 22 month old, but many times we can't exactly make out what he's saying.  Sometimes we make stuff up.  Today he said something and when we couldn't understand Ryan asked "Did you say Rolodex?"  It dawned on me that Graham and Porter will never need to know what a Rolodex is. Then of course I started to think of all the things that were such a part of my life growing up that they will never really know.  They might hear a mention of them but that's about all.  Talk about making me feel old!!

• They will likely never listen to a cassette tape.
• Chances are they will never watch a VHS tape.
• It's quite possible that they will never own a "land line" telephone and maybe not any with a cord between the handset and the base..
• All of the televisions they will watch will have color and probably HD.
• Likely there will always be more computers in their house than toilets. 
• My guess is that they will never look anything up in a paper encyclopedia and certainly not in a paper card catalog.  But they probably will cut stuff out of our National Geographics, just like I did when I was in school (don't tell my mom).

I wonder what they will think of next to make the things we use today obsolete?