Life has been really crazy-busy lately. It always is when the month of August rolls around. The back to school "panic" starts to set in, along with the "We are almost out of summer...what else can we shove into our days" panic. Our house is no different.
In the beginning of August, I was doing everything I could with Reilly, trying to soak up our time together before I headed back to school. Unfortunately, that often meant he and I were spending "quality" time together at school...him often entertaining himself on the floor or being "oohed" and "ahhhd" over by some of the other ladies at school!
So last Monday, August 16th, was one of the highly anticipated days...back to school for the teachers, ice cream social that night, get to meet our kids...just a big day. It was also a very sad day...I knew that when I dropped Rei-Guy off at Miss Betsy's that morning, we weren't going to have our lazy summer days together anymore.
So it was at the ice cream social, about half way through that I get this exact text message from Dave... "I kid you not, I just asked Rei what he wanted and he said Mama." Okay...shot through the heart. Like I wasn't feeling bad enough already...let's add another dagger.
So I pretty much ran out of the ice cream social at 6:30, beating over half the parents out of the parking lot to race home to hear my son say MY NAME! I could barely wait!
When I got home, he and Daddy had been practicing over and over, and as soon as I walked in, I got to hear it, I got to hear Reilly say Mama for the first time.
His first word.
I'm sure it was no accident.
It was music to my ears.
P.S. He still says it, so I know he did it on purpose! :)
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