Today is a new day. Last night while I was thinking about Michaels first three word sentence “Dad Hear Heart” {over and over again}, I could not help but to forget about ALL the other events in the day and focus on this BRAND NEW step for Michael and to look back at some other bright moments we have with him.
Michael is not you average kid. He would much rather watch the History Channel, Modern Marvels, How It’s Made, or Trauma Life in the ER than cartoons. Don’t get me wrong he does like his cartoons {what kid doesn’t} but, they do not hold his attention like these do. You can physically see the information being soaked up like a sponge. The look in his eyes screams Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock.
“Heart” was actually one of the first words he said aside from “NO” {his favorite}. While he watches the medical related shows on TV he sees the heart monitor spiking up and down, Michael points to it and says “HEART” {pointing to his chest}. He draws the up and down heart monitors lines on paper and announces “Heart”.
A child his age would typically relate heart to the shape of a heart not to a heart monitor.
We believe Michael is so intelligent and inventive but, his outward body won’t let it out. Everyday he shows us new things some times it’s creepy what he comes up with {not in a bad creepy way but in a, OMG! How, did you come up with or know that?!} Way.
Michael will sit and take apart EVERY toy to see how they work {none of his toys are in tacked or used the way they are intended}. He has done this since he was about 2 years old. He is always putting two toys together to make a NEW toy, or making them relate in some way. You can see in his little eyes his mind is going Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock.
Each day, each week he is always coming up with something new. His latest obsession is {Straws}.The other day I bought him a large bag of neon colored straws {it was that or not get out of the grocery store}. Honestly I was dreading this as all I could envision was me having to pick up all 50 at the end of the evening.
To my surprise when we got them home he spilled them out onto the floor {I had to take a deep breath} and he started putting them together into parallelograms {shapes}. Again, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock.
Life with Michael does get overwhelming but, it is these moments of creativity, genius, what ever you want to call it that make us step back and realize that. There is a REASON why our little man defied the odds to come into this world {we were told he should not have made it due to the complications I had during the pregnancy}.
Son, you have a beautiful, creative, smart mind. I can’t wait for it all to be revealed!
Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock
