Mama

Yes, Marcus' spoke his first word today and it was indeed "MAMA!" Yippee for me!!!! I can't even begin to explain the love and excitement that came over me. Curtis was witness too, which was really special. Of course, we both cried tears of pure happiness. :) He had been playing around with "ma" for the past couple of days. There was even one incident on Sat that we thought maybe he said it. Today there was no denying it. Here was the scene: he was in his jumper jumping around like a little monkey and he said "mama" three times in row while lifting his arms up at me. What an amazing feeling!!!! Then about an hour later, he was standing on his changing table face to face with me. He said it again as clear as can be..."mama", and then wrapped me with a big ole huge! Yes, my heart melted again! :) What a big boy...I can't even believe it.

I can remember sitting on our living room couch during the first month of Marcus' life...I think it was around 2am and I had not been getting much sleep, if any...and I turned to my mom (who was up with me and Marcus at the time) and said to her that if Marcus' first word was to be "mama" then all these sleepless nights would not matter. I was obviously kidding cuz it really would not have mattered if it were "dada" or "ball" or anything else...but it sure felt SUPER special that the word was in fact me!! :)