With the days winding down before we welcome Clayton to our family we find ourselves trying to soak in our time with just the 3 of us.  Taylor is a precious little girl, constantly wowing her parents with her calm demeanour and quick learning.  Today she and I (dad) read through her Babies first words book and she was saying, in her baby voice, guitar, piano, duck, blueberry, baby, and ball.  She also recognizes many other words and points to them when i say them, like firetruck, ball, sun, rock, flute and a few others.  It is such a proud (i'm not really sure if that is fully encompassing the feeling but it is a start) moment to see her learning and connecting with her as she learns new things.  Maybe that is what being a parent is about, treasuring the journey and if that is what parenting is about then Libby and I surely are enjoying the ride.

Each morning for the last week or so when Taylor wakes up she and I get her diaper changed and then walk into Clayton's room to see if he's there yet.  She looks around, checks out the crib and then enjoys a quick play on the rocking chair.  We then head into see if Mommie and Jack are awake.  Usually we try to be quite and Taylor goes 'shhhh' and puts her finger up to her mouth :), that's the cutest.  We tiptoe around and head down to the kitchen to stur up some fun breakfast (usually one of a few things - waffles, oatmeal, fruit and a new addition muffins of carrot and some berry.

She is good about listening to us and one thing we have enjoyed that she listens to is our rule about eating and having to be on your pockets.  That has been a life saver and we're glad she doesn't know yet that she can not listen to us, we'll save that for the teen years we hope.

Each morning after eating with her Mommie they call Mumi (which Taylor likes to say as Mimi) on facetime.  That is something that calms Taylor when she is resisting sitting in her high-chair, amazing that Mumi.  They talk and giggle, so wonderful to see her deeply connecting with her grandparents, dispite the distance that seperates us.  And her Babba, well she really loves patting her head and saying Babba and letting her Dad know we should facetime him.  Some mornings she will just go on a tear saying 'Babba, Babba, Babba, Babba' and pointing to daddy's phone - so we call him and it makes her very happy.

More later, daddy doesn't wont to miss out on a great morning watching Taylor run around the first floor, playing the piano, pushing her car or pulling her owl.