Like Everyone Else

Jesse is going through a very independent stage in development. Age appropriate, by the books, pediatricians, and all other mom's I talk to. However, it's so interesting to watch him adapt, learn, and advance. He's aware of so much going on around him, he pays attention and doesn't miss a thing. Right now he's driven to sit at the table in the kitchen, we have a dining room that we never use so these are the chairs he has access too. Every day (as posted in November) he moves the dinette chairs to a new position. He's great at rearranging! This morning - he was interested in sitting with his OJ while Ezra had breakfast... in his PJ's in these pictures.

A favorite poem of mine from an unknown writer...

The Little One That Follows Me"
Author: Unknown

A careful woman, I ought to be;

a little one follows me.

I do not dare to go astray,

for fear they'll go,

the self-same way.

I cannot once escape their eyes,

whatever they see me do, they'll try.

Like me, they say, they're going to be,

that little one that follows me.

They think that I am good and fine;

believe in every work of mine.

The bad in me they must not see;

my life to them, must, an example be.

I must remember, as I go,through summer's sun and winter's snow,

I'm building for the years to be,for that little one that follows me.