2010 TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS

he is growing so much, the height, vocabulary and skills just increase every day!

just like the pepper plant in the foreground he sprouts up and shocks you with his language

this week

he said to grampa ron
"dad took me in the boat to the estuary"

my dad looked at me did he say what I thought he just said, I replied yes

then in conversation to me in the car
he told me
"sometimes I get mad, then angry and then upset...but i hate being frust-ur-ated"

my jaw dropped

too many big concepts that i never knew a toddler could get

big picture stuff

he plays with a magnetic plastic fish toy and tells me we need to set the wild fish free so they can swim

he scolded me for putting something in the trash, he said "that is plastic it can be recycled MOM" with a tone of knowing he was right.....but in reality the item was not a recyclable plastic but he was right!

he was telling his toy cars that they needed to be nice neighbors

just such a sweet kid, yes a handful, yes wears you out, but so amazing

It begins with a color
I have had dreams since pregnant with this kid, about him, his future, his life, i always saw him as a traveling archeologist when I was pregnant with him....saw him as an adult.....discovering, traveling, learning, understanding the world, himself and never needing us, it was like a treat in my dreams if we, the parents, saw him 2 times a year, he was soooo busy with his life! Now sometimes he says to me "mom I am too busy to come do that now" I laugh remembering my dreams while pregnant

we got grief about his name from family, I remember distinctly about 2 months before he was born having a strong gurgle from within me kind of scream "MY NAME IS EMERSON"....and thus I stopped trying to appease the family that thought his name should be Jack or John or something "normal and one syllable" as they said

Now I tend to have dreams and nightmares about day to day scares....him running in the parking lot at work to greet gramma....thankfully no moving cars but still out the door on his own, his continual pushing the limits of safety, being all boy and fearless, I am an overprotective mom, flat out