We have our two older grandsons staying with us. They are now 12 and 11 years old and are amused and delighted when I tell them funny things they said when they were small. I know it takes effort, but if you can record these kinds of things in your baby's journal (well, they'll be toddlers and older when they learn to speak, of course!) you'll find it well worth while.
Here's an excerpt from Letter Thirteen of my book 'Magical Motherhood, A Series of Letters to Cheryl' as an example.*
I found it fascinating to observe the
different ways Josh and Rory took hold of language. Josh loved adverbs and
adjectives — sticky, slow, fast – and especially liked three syllable words.
One day I swept the kitchen floor. As I finished, I commented, “Well, that’s
better, but not marvellous.” He went around muttering “marvellous, marvellous.”
Don’t miss the opportunity to record such
things in your child’s journal. One of my regrets is that I didn’t make more
detailed notes, starting with Miranda. By the time Ben came along I recognized
how much of what I believed I’d remember I’d forgotten! So I have more of his
delightful ways and sayings – sometimes funny, sometimes wise – than of the
three others. I brought out my notebooks when we celebrated his twenty-first
birthday, still the true time of our coming of age. When I read out some of the
amusing things he said, the questions he asked, he nearly fell off his chair,
he was laughing so hard!
And now I’ve also recorded things that
Josh and Rory say when I’m with them. Ah, how the heart sighs and smiles to
read and be reminded of those precious moments.
* available from http://www.magicalmotherhood.com
or email magicalmotherhood@rogers.com
