"boo"

this is a very late post. i wanted to write this since it happened but never got to. last monday, julian is having a pretty rough time with his errupting teeth. his right tooth is really out now but his left tooth & the teeth alongside those two front teeth have yet to show themselves pretty soon. tuesday was better. he was shrieking for most of the day but it was through sheer delight of whatever he/we were doing. mommy couldn't find time to blog then. my joints for some reason have been aching too especially in the late afternoons for the past days, and i'm just hoping that i'm not getting the flu. but then again, we've been experiencing a terrible heatwave so that could be just that too.

before i get sidetracked even more, let me go ahead and write about what i really meant to blog (& maybe brag too) about. this happened a couple of weeks back. while i was lying in bed and julian was on the carpetted floor in the room crawling around, julian made a beeline to where i was and pulled himself up to a standing position. he said what i first thought was "pooh". i repeated it to him and like what he normally does, gave me his ever sweet smile in response. it took a couple more times of julian squatting & standing up saying what i thought was "pooh" before i finally realized that what he was saying was actually "boo" and that he was playing peek-a-boo with me. and when i said peek-a-boo? his smile was bigger than ever. peek-a-boo continued on for a few more minutes but julian usually just mouthed the word. he knew that mommy knows it was "boo" that he was saying. mommy may have been clueless for awhile but julian was so patient until mommy FINALLY got it :) thank you my baby boy for being with me.