MOMMY!

Landon was a little slow to join the Mommy-train.

He's been into Mommy since the beginning.

(Although at first I'm fairly certain he was using me for the milk.)

But he didn't actually say the word Mommy until recently.

Honestly, I was getting quite annoyed.

He had been saying "Doggie" and "Dadda" for months.

Even words such as "done" and "please" and "eye"

seems more important than Mommy. 

I mean really kid - 

I cook your meals,

dress you, give you toys, wipe your bum. 

Couldn't you at least have the decency to refer to me by name.

At one point I got actually got upset.

During diaper changes there was quite a bit of

grabbing and gibbering and what sounded like

"Eee-nus".

Normally I could have given it to him,

but there was no way I was writing

"penis" on the word chart before "mommy". 

But finally he got.

About a ten days ago I heard the first "Mommy."

What elation!

My baby boy recognized me by name. 

I high-fived him, and snuggled, and kissed his chubby little cheeks. 

"Yes, I'm your Mommy!"

Now it's been over a week since that first sweet-sounding "mommy."

And Landon has realized that he can not only say the name,

but that it elicits a response from his mother. 

What fun!

Welcome to the soundtrack of our life:

mommy

mommy

mommy

mommy

mommy!

mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy

mommy!!!!