Do you remember the first object your child could correctly recognize? For Rhyne, it happened to be the Moon. About a week after we put them in daycare, I was trying to wrangle both kids into the car (I'm sure everyone was glued to the windows dying of laughter at this new Mom of 2!). When all of a sudden, Rhyne looked up and pointed to the sky and said, "Moon, Moon". If you read the little paragraph to the right, you will understand why the Moon holds a special place in my heart.

Well, equally amazing is the first object recognition from Jake. Not sure if everyone knows, but we live on a small dirt farm. Yes, it's a dirt farm because that seems to be the only thing that we can successfully grow! Anyway, Jake's first object that he could successfully say and recognize was his Daddy's tractor - Dadda's tractor. Jody also works in the rental contruction business, so he is always around the big bulldozers, etc. It seems there is always some kind of contruction going on in county. So, little Jake thinks that every piece of construction equipment - aka "tractor" belongs to Dadda. For a few months he was constantly calling every backhoe, bobcat, bulldozer, etc. "tractor". Then it progressed into "Dadda's tractor". Now, he just makes sure to point out every "tractor" that we pass to and from the daycare (only 20 -30 a day!).

It's so funny, because the first book that I bought 6 months before we even received our referrals was Dr Seuss' "Are You My Mother?". My friend and I just love to quote movies and books and she is always joking that she could use one of those "Are You My Mother" snorts (backhoe) in her yard.

I have been reading this book to the kids, so I am just waiting for the day for one of them to point at a construction site and say, "Are You My Mother?"!!!