The boy says momma

I worked my old day job again today. When I got home my wife said that she had been fighting SAD since yesterday. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of seasonal depression that can vary in it's strength. Around here (the Pacific Northwest) it seems like practically everybody feels it at least occasionally. She needed some cheering up and our son had been fairly cranky today, which obviously didn't help. So I took baby duty for a while and let her focus a little more on what she'd actually been trying to accomplish for the day.

At one point, while I was holding him and trying to show him some videos that he likes on my computer, he turned around to my wife and finally started saying "momma" in a manner which actually seems to indicate that he knows what he's saying. :-) He's been saying "da da" for months now, but he hadn't really said it convincingly until recently. Even then it was only partially convincing. This evening, the "momma" was definitely real.

I'm glad that even though I worked outside of the home today I didn't miss this. These are the moments that I wanted so desperately to be here for. I would have hated to come home and find out that he'd done it while I was at work. Thankfully, even though he was saying "momma", he waited for "da da". :-)