Learning Learning

We just can't even believe how much Barrett is learning every day. It seems like every time we turn around, he's doing a new skill. Yesterday Matt taught him to say "Mommy" instead of "Mama" and I just about cried.  It was so sweet. 

He finally learned how to say "Gamma" instead of just staring at his grandma. He can repeat his ABCs and numbers 1-10, and he sometimes recites some of them by memory.  He can't quite get the whole alphabet by himself, but I hear him in the backseat start with "Q" and work his way down to "Z."  And he repeats it over and over like it's on a loop.  I could listen to his precious little voice all day. 

Some of his biggest milestones have happened at the play class we go to together.  When we started, he would cry when another baby tried to play with him. Now he smiles and usually throws a ball at anybody that comes and plays with him. But hey, it's a start.  When we started he just wanted to play on his own and would ignore the group songs/activities that the whole group did. Now he follows the teacher around everywhere she goes, and he laughs and giggles and dances during song time.  When we started, he was terrified of the parachute. All the other babies would run underneath it and squeal, and Barrett would cling so tightly to me while he cried that he didn't even notice all his friends under the parachute laughing a playing. One day I say under the parachute with him, and every week after that he loves playing underneath it!  He runs, laughs, throws his arms up over his head, and basically is just a big clown. It's his favorite part of class. And, as silly as it sounds, I almost cry every single time. Maybe because this is the first fear that I've seen him. And that he's conquered.  I'm just a proud mommy. 

Pictures of play class fun.  Some are a little blurry ... It's hard to catch him being still!