Conversations with My Kid – The Counting Edition
In one week my baby boy will turn three.
It’s unbelievable really.
I am holding onto each passing moment as tightly as possible. I tell him that he is delicious and he tells me “You’re alicious too mama.” And my heart melts into a pile of little boy love goop.
Everything I’ve ever been told about being a mama to a little boy is true. I am in love.
We read books together every single night as we rock together in the glider that I have rocked all by babies in. Recently, he’s been loving reading counting books. Every night we read one or two counting books where I watch him point to all kinds of things and count. Sometimes he counts the objects to ten just perfectly and other times his brain moves faster than his little finger and then six freight cars behind Thomas are suddenly nine freight cars. I love that. I never correct him. I just smile, squeeze him tighter and kiss his delicious cheeks.
The other evening we sat around the dinner table together as a family which we are able to do so much easier when both mama and daddy are currently unemployed (which will change soon enough). Tommy was in a counting mood so he spread out his fingers on one hand and started counting:
“One, two, three, four five…..” he said as he looked at his little fingers.
He paused slightly to switch his focus to his other hand currently clenched. He then deliberately opened his fingers on that hand and continued counting….
“…six, seven, eight, nine, ten…..”
He paused again to look at all of his fingers outstretched on both hands and then lifted his head and asked us, “Where’s eleven?”
My sweet almost-three-year-old baby counting boy.
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“Conversations with My Kid” is my weekly ritual started a few months ago so I could actually remember some of the awesome conversations I have with my kids every single day.
If you have a Conversation with My Kid post that you want to share, please link up below!! I missed last week because I was decompressing on my little anniversary getaway. But it’s good to be back because these conversations just make me smile and kick off the weekend just perfectly!
Hope you have an awesome weekend!
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Moms without Blogs is basically me, Lee, who wonders every single day how in the hell am I going to find the time to write a blog post? I\'m a mom to three kids (ages 9, 7, and 4) who are insanely gorgeous, insanely active, insanely demanding, insanely life-affirming and who have almost driven me insane. In good and bad ways. I work as a producer in reality television, I fold all kinds of laundry, I am picky about how my dishwasher is loaded, I yell entirely too much at my kids, I like desert skies and how my skin feels after a dip in the ocean, I married my soul mate even though I don\'t believe in soul mates really, I believe that laughing \'til it hurts is where it\'s at, I\'m a sucker for putting little treats into the bowls of our three dogs each night, I love driving my 1974 orange convertible Karmann Ghia, I write when inspiration strikes, and summer is my season. And if you\'re a mom without a blog, literally or figuratively, then I\'d probably like to hang out with you. Thanks for reading.
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What a great conversation to keep.
That delicious boy makes me smile too!
Ohhhhh baby boy sweetness!!
You know I cannot ever get enough.
(Was Hubs even slightly inclined to tell him how to count to 11? Mine would. That’s how the hilarious testosterone rolls around here.)
So sweet Lee and I’m the first to tell you, yes parenting a boy, it’s truly being in love
That is sooo adorable! I’m not ready for them to grow up.
I kinda hate the sharing rule as the germaphobe in me is freaked out by all the nasty things other little rugrats could be carrying and potentially giving my kiddo. HA!
p.s. Thank you so much for following BonBon Rose Girls. We just got our own .com, so I’ll hope you’ll follow us there too at: http://www.bonbonrosegirls.com. We are having giveaways galore this month in celebration of our move. Right now we have a pair of House of Harlow earrings and a Kate Spade ring up for grabs! Hugs, K