One of my favorite movies to watch is the movie "What About Bob" starring Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray. If you haven't seen it, I would encourage you to rent it and see it. However, this post is not actually about that movie.... but an idea in the movie. In the movie, the character Bob is encouraged to celebrate and rejoice over "baby steps" that are made. And that's what this post is about.
It isn't about one of my two little girls learning to walk - at the age of 3 and 1, they both know how to walk already. However, as they have lived in our home, we have seen some "baby steps" that are being made which make us very excited. A big baby step for me happened the other morning.
I went in to wake the girls up and spent some time in their room reading books with them and talking. Christi was still asleep in our bed (or at least still resting). After about 10 minutes I had to grab my stuff to head out to work, and Christi heard me and hollered for me to bring the girls into our bedroom for her to watch. So I brought them in and they climbed up onto the bed with Christi. I grabbed the rest of my stuff for work and got ready to leave. I gave M.K. a kiss and said "goodbye, I love you." Then I gave Christi a kiss and said "goodbye, I love you." Finally I gave M.M. a kiss and said, "goodbye, I love you" and M.M. said "I love you too!" WOW. This was the first time that M.M. has used the word "love" at all - and was a HUGE baby step to me. Christi and I both had a look of shock on our faces. Christi quickly motioned to me "don't make a big deal about it, just go." To which I said, "ya.. ok... bye" But my heart has been a flutter ever since. One small step for M.M.... one Giant Leap of the heart for Ryan. :)
They sound so cute Ryan! It's good to hear you guys are doing good! (Even if it's stressful!)
God bless!
Posted by: Mindy | March 14, 2009 at 01:51 PM