small talk six

6/6 – 6 things about your children that you are proud of

if i'm playing catch-up, i'll try to catch up on my small talk 6s too. i'll save simple pleasures catch up for later since it's been awhile and i'll have to think of a bunch :-)

1. I'm so proud of Noah when he shares and plays with other kids. It's awesome watching him learn all about sharing and to know he's good at it.

2. He's so intelligent. Obviously all parents think their children are brilliant, but when other people confirm it it just makes me so proud.

3. He keeps smiling. even when he's had a bad day or something's just not working the way he wants it to, he still smiles (albeit through tears sometimes). He's a happy baby and it makes me proud to see him endure through things.

4. the way he eats. if you know me at all, you know i'm a picky eater. granted, i'll eat a lot of things and any restaurant we go to i can find SOMETHING on the menu...but i won't eat anything with beans in it or around it, same goes with Mayo. actually, just typing the 'm' word makes me shudder. ugh! so, watching Noah try so many new foods and learning that he loves them makes me proud.

5. how much he likes books. I'm a bookworm. I go everywhere with a book, b/c you just don't know when you might have 5 minutes to sit down and visit with your 'friends'. I've read to Noah everyday since the week my development e-mails told me that he could hear me from inside the womb. and now, we have boxes of books in his playroom, the living room, and his bedroom. He'll crawl over to the boxes and pull out books and flip through and 'read' them. he even reads Moo Baa LaLaLa to me at night (he'll say the animal sounds as I flip to the pages). I'm just so proud and impressed by him.

6. Everything. Maybe it's a cop-out answer, but it's true. everything he does makes me proud. just watching him grow and take in everything this world has to offer makes me proud and makes my heart want to burst.