Soooo Big!!!

It has happened so fast, my "baby" is now almost a year old. He is coming into his own little being right before our eyes. We have been at my mom's house for a few days now and I have had the luxury of spending some quality time with him not just from the hours of 5-7:30 in the evening after a long day of school for him and work for me. Which, as anyone with children knows is the worst time of day for even the best baby. I am realizing that he understands and knows much more than I give him credit for. We use sign language with him and have been for many many months, we were eating out with my mom and sister yesterday and he was eating and then began signing the word "drink" which is an open and closed motion you make with your hand. I was beside myself, I gave him a drink, he drank and then made the gesture at least 3 more times throughout the meal...I cannot even begin to tell you how it feels to realize that all those months of signing were not in vain. It works, it really works...he signs eat, finished, drink, and more...its AWESOME... All of the other gestures he makes are blowing my mind, and its "modeling" at its finest. He takes shoes and lays them on his feet in an attempt to put them on, he blows kisses, waves bye bye, points the remote at the television, he blows on his food because he sees me do it, he puts telephones to his ear...

This has also reminded Michael and I to be so careful with our words and our actions! We also just taught him a game that my mom used to play with me, I am sure you may be familiar with, its called "Soooo Big" How big is Finn, Sooooo big...he is so cute when he does it...and now he does it all the time...the novelty of the game is so amusing for him. This being said, I leave you with a couple of quotes that I just love, I saved my personal favorite for last. Smooches to All!!

Mark Twain - There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

B.B. King - The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

Angela Schwindt - While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.