The Things You Do

My darling OB,

I've been thinking about treasured moments recently, and it has re-ignited this nagging feeling that these precious months and years are flying past way too quickly.  I look at you, still with your toddler's face, and roly poly baby arms and legs, and already I can see the boy, teenager and man you will become all too soon.  One day, when I am an old lady, and you are a grown man, making your own way, I'll look back on these days and wish I had recorded some of those little things that I hoped I would never forget.

So here we are.  These are the things that, right now, I love the most.

• The way you yell "Mummy! Get up now!" from your cot each morning (sometimes very early in the morning!)
• The way you hold your guitar like a real rock star, dancing and singing along to the soundtrack in your head
• Your crinkly hands and feet
• Your blue, blue eyes
• The way your hair bobs about when you run, which is most of the time
• The deep, growly laugh you do when you're excited about something
• The way you sing "Shout your name, shout your name, oooooohhhhhh Dod!"
• The fact that you call Playgroup 'Paypoop'
• The little kiss you give me last thing before you go into your cot at night
• The amount of cheese you eat
• The way you are picky about what coat and shoes you want to wear
• Your cheeky laugh
• The way you roll your eyes to look up at the corner of the room when you're about to do something cheeky
• The way you get excited about things, and look forward to things with such eagerness
• Your beautiful manners and the cute way you say 'please' and 'thankyou'
• The way you love babies, stroking them and bringing toys for them to play with
• The way you say 'ma' instead of 'I' - "Ma do it!", "Ma sit on the chair!"
• The way you kept coming to kiss my 'poorly back' and make it 'aaaaaall better'
• How much you love Wallace and Grommit!
• How much you love being outside and running around, even though it will mean quite a change for me to get used to being out there with you - more fresh air and exercise needed Mummy!
• The way that if I say 'no' to something you want to do, you just reply "later?" and are completely fine with that
• The way you count, saying "two, three, two, three", and "four, six, four, six" - there's plenty of time for one and five later
• The way you won't settle in your bed until you have named all your blankets and got them snuggled over you - soft one, other one and big boy quilt
• The way you kick off your blankets ten minutes later and then wake up cold in the night!
• The little plastic cups of 'coffeetea' you bring to me in the mornings
• The way you love your friends and name them every night when we say our prayers
• The fact that you can entertain yourself for ages if I draw a drum kit on a piece of paper and give you two pencil 'drumsticks'
• The way you say "A bit 'ot", "A bit 'ard", "A bit 'eavy", and best of all, when you called the strawberries "A bit tart"!
• The way you tip all of your toys out of the boxes, and then line the boxes up along the floor and play trains with them
• How much you enjoy books and reading
• The cuddles we have at pyjama time
• The way you love slopes and ramps and will happily run up and down them for ages
• How observant you are
• The way you love fruit and will eat that first off your lunch plate 
• The way you cling to my leg when a dog comes past - I know we'll have to fix that dog thing, but for now it's nice to know that I am your safe port in a storm

And best of all, the way that all these moments are mine to treasure forever!