The Meaning of Excitement

I’ve decided what the most exciting thing is in the world. There was a time in my life, roughly a year and a half ago, when asked this question I’d probably have said, “going on vacation, having reservations at a nice restaurant, riding a roller coaster,” but a lot has changed in the last year and my entire view of what constitutes excitement has changed as well.

Now I’m excited if my child takes more then a 30 minute nap or sleeps in until 7 a.m. I’m excited when my kid eats a new food that she’s never tried before or sits up by herself for an extended period of time. Heck I’m even excited when she wakes up in the morning and hasn’t peed through her diaper, sleeper and bedding. But this last weekend I discovered the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life! Avie started saying da da and ma ma!

Da da came first. The little runt woke Daddy up Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. yelling it. Usually we can at least get her to play in bed until 7 but that morning (it was Jeff’s weekend morning to get up with her) Daddy jumped right out of bed. How can you not go play with a kid who has just made your day.

Then yesterday she started saying ma ma ma ma! She’s being saying Mom for awhile, but it usually only comes out when she’s fussy and pissed about something. She’d wine and then say Mum at the end. But now she truly says ma ma. It might be the cutest and it’s definitely the most exciting thing I’ve ever heard in my life. She’s a genius and I now truly and firmly believe that.

It’s crazy how much one little person can change your life. My life must have been so boring a year and a half ago. I just need to remember that the next time she’s teething or throwing up in the back of my car. Avie makes every day an exciting adventure and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!