Chicken or Zebra?

Carys and I at the Botanical Gardens. She loved it.

I wrote this last blog at 9:30, not 7:30 like it says. And she has now moved on to mmmmmmeaaahhsss. Just want another MA!

Baaa bbmm ba bahh

So, Carys is always asleep for her morning nap right now. But not today. As I write this downstairs I am listening to her on the monitor (probably sitting up in her crib staring at her hands that she is trying to weave together) saying, "Baa ba ba baaaa ba ba, bmmmwaaabaa bbbbbbaa." Hilarious. I would love to know the kind of conversation she is having right now with herself.

"Ma....Ma"

The Big Day

Well, how long have I been waiting for his...hoping..dreaming...imaging. That my little girl would look at me and call me Mommy. Now, granted- she is doing all kinds of great babbling, lots of "na's and da's and ga's"...just no "ma's." Tuesday, October 14th. 12:29pm

It happened in the funniest of places. Carys was down for her nap and a good friend called to see if we wanted to meet at Steak and Shake for lunch..random, but it sounded good. The timing worked out perfectly, she woke up after I got my shower in, we packed up the car and were on our way. She was already doing a bit of babbling...which I like to call coversating. She and I talk all the time; I try to make sure I reciprocate with something verbal when she is doing this so she knows that I am there and I care about what she is 'saying.'

So we get there and of course it takes awhile to get a high chair all set up and enough cheerios to keep her occupied while I figure out which specific shake is calling me today. So we're talking while I give sideways glances to make sure she is ok and has enough to play with, all the while this table of older women keep looking over and smiling at her and our waiter just keep calling her all these funny pet names. I smile. So, Jen and I are talking about something, I don't know what, and I turned to look at her with a cheerio in my hand and, "Maa...Ma?"

I freeze. I completely stop moving and my jaw drops, I probably didn't breathe for a minute or two. My eyes start to tear up. I look at her in total awe and she just looks away like nothing even happened. I can't even get my thoughts together to respond or ask my friend if she just heard that too. I don't know if she knew what she was saying or had put the two together yet, but she waaaas looking at me when she said it. ALL I wanted was to push pause and the world would go away and it would just be me and my Beauty. I would love all over her, kiss all over, scream, jump, hug. But no..we were in Steak and Shake with all these people. Ugg. But it was still a beautiful beautiful moment.

But as hard as it is to imagine... I know it will happened again. And I absolutely can't wait.

Picture from our friend Jacob.

I love this face (mid crawl). I feel like she really takes in the world and is just pondering life.
Our friend Jacob caught this picture. Just your every day hug, but it just doesn't get better than that.
You should have heard the soundtrack to this picture. She just wouldn't stop giggling! Loved it.
Carys and I on her first train ride (besides the L in Chicago) at the Wildlife Prairie Park. Very fun...until she ate a big honking chunk of our ticket and I was worriedly scraping the inside of her mouth for dissolving think blue chunks of paper. Lovely.
I love this picture. It is so us. Just enthralled and focused on her. How lucky we are that she looks back at us with that face too. So blessed.