You turned a page today. Not a figurative page - an actual page. You sat with me in Relief Society as we sang the opening song. You pulled on the hymn book, yanked on a page, turned it, and voila! Another page!
This is your new thing. You are deliberate. You're finally starting to do things deliberately. You hug me not just because you have no neck control and your arms flail about and just happened to wrap around me. No. You hug me because you're happy or tired or freakin' out a bit. It's so fascinating to watch.
Before you have kids, you hear people talk about THEIR babies - "Oh! He's rolling over!" or "Oh! She laughed for the first time!"...and it's a little weird how excited they get over the dumbest things. Dude....I can roll over...how 'bout we have a party about that?! But then you have your own baby....and you realized how monumental these little things really are. These first 3 years of your life, you will learn more than in the rest of your life combined. Little things, like page turning, become bigger things like reading. Rolling over becomes walking and running. Laughing becomes talking. You change every day. And finally, you're changing deliberately.
Eli...you turned a page today. And I couldn't be prouder.
I love you, Monkey.
Mom
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