The wonder of Asher

I can't believe that my little peanut is now a little over 20 months old. And I know (I KNOW) that I am as biased as any mother but oh my goodness, my son is amazing! These months are becoming so exciting now that he has entered toddlerhood. Each day brings with it a new word (today's is (finally!) "yes"; yesterdays was "purple") and his vocabulary is getting pretty extensive, encompassing shapes and colors. And he understands even more than he can say. We do still need to work on numbers (he thinks it is "one, two, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!") and the alphabet... but what's the rush?! Asher is soaking up his world and its language like a little sponge and I marvel at his ability and his growth each and every day.

Asher's words to date:
Yes, No, Peas, Cheese, Please, Juice, Bottle, Pink, Pig, Moo, Neigh, Quack, Duck, Sssss (for the snake), twit twoo, tweet weet, meow, woof, puppy, dog, elephant noise with action, gribbit, baa, choo choo, beep, brum brum, bagel, mummy, daddy, joy, nana, tata, amma, poppa, TT (TV), backpack, blue's clues, two, purple, blue, circle, triangle, cracker, pool, car, door, more, mine, me, you, carly, nat, tea, T, D, B......

There may be more....


I am amazed how he is his own person. The same person he has been since birth--just more of him, so to speak. It is incredible that boyhood is innate, as is personality. Asher was funny even as a newborn.

One thing I have realised... it is so hard to NOT be philosophical when you are a mother. Through our children we get to re-experience the wonder of our world. And though as an adult I despair at so much, through Asher's innocent eyes, I am able to see the amazement and wonder that the simplest things in life contain. Parenthood makes you strive to be the best you can be and gives you cause to be harder on yourself when you fail. Your sense of self becomes tangled up in the web of another human being, your morals are becoming theirs. Being a mother is the most responsible and challenging job known to man. I challenge anyone who says differently.