Word of the Day

It seems like every day is a vocabulary lesson (and surprise) around our house. A few mornings ago, Grayson woke up and said "eat" while pointing to his mouth. We had hadn't heard him use that word before but he seemed to know exactly what it meant.

Then tonight at the grocery store we were perusing the produce section and he said "apple." Sure enough, we were standing next to the apples.

We've also been using pictures of our extended family as flash cards to teach him names of people he doesn't see daily. It's all starting to sink in and is fun to watch everything click. He's even putting a few words together from time to time, such as "dada, bye."

If that wasn't enough of a sign our little boy is growing up, we were looking for some new socks at Target and had to go over to the Boys section to find his size. We're so used to shopping in the baby section that on the walk over, Michael told me he couldn't believe we were already moving up to "real" boy clothes.

After all of this big boy business, I went ahead and gave Grayson extra kisses and cuddle time when I was rocking him tonight. It just seemed in order.