His love of cars and Hot Wheels in particular has graduated from lining them up in a straight line on our couch to using everything and anything as a race track for the adventures his imagination cooks up.
Lately he has been climbing into bed with me when he wakes up in the morning. I hear the treasures he carries from his bed to mine and he unloads them one by one and then grabs handfuls of my bed sheets as he pulls himself up. Sometimes he will say "mommy" as he snuggles next to me and I love it.
Tonight as we were reading before bed he sees my necklace. It's a circle pendant that Austin had given me years ago for Valentine's Day. He looks at it, gently pats it with his pointer finger and says "I like your necklace, mommy" in his gentle voice. I tell him how I got it from daddy a long time ago. He smiles because he knows it's special.
His little heart and brain are growing so rapidly that I have to take a step back to appreciate the amazing spirit that I have been blessed with.
I know there will be a day I won't be the first thing he thinks of when he wakes up. I know these days are numbered. He's growing too fast and I am finding it more painful as time slips away.
This age of independence, of "I want to do it myself" and "mommy look at this" as he discovers new things is what I live for. I used to dream of changing the world but right now my world is changing me.
