Speeding Ahead

Dear Sawyer,

You were on a roll today and impressed me with several of your newly acquired skills. First, you were playing in the attic and when I went up there to check on you, I saw that you had completed the giant firetruck puzzle all on your own. You have always been good at puzzles but the firetruck puzzle has a lot of pieces. Nice!

Second, you learned a Halloween song at school ("Ghosts and goblins, cat and bats, I'm not afraid of this or that . . . ") and you sang the entire song at dinner. I am proud of you for being able to remember all of the words!

You are growing up so fast, so I take comfort in the "babyish" things you still do. I love how you always ask me to hold you like a baby and how you rest your head in my lap when we watch TV together. It's sweet that every night at dinner, you eat for about 10 minutes and then get off your chair, walk over to me and say, "Lap lap, please." Then I pull you into my lap and feed you the rest of your dinner. I still get amused when you mispronounce certain words and names: lellow (yellow), lummy (yummy), lucky (yucky), pahcorn (popcorn), vechables (vegetables), torteewa (tortilla), waterlemon (watermelon), peetend (pretend), poweese (police), scawee (scary), ungabeads (Aquabeads), Nofia (Sofia), Cwaire (Claire), Oviler (Oliver). It also makes me smile when you say things grammatically incorrect, such as "The whole family pick up me!" (You exclaimed this one Friday when Daddy, GuhGaw, JieJie and I all came to pick you up from school.) And finally, when you are sad, hurt or tired, you immediately run to me, say "Up, please," rest your head on my shoulder after I pick you up and hug me tight. Don't lose these baby behaviors too soon, mmkay?

Love,
Mom