In Due Time

As as mom and a teacher, I've had a hard time balancing my expectations when it comes to the things Grayson "should" know. I remember a couple years ago when I was getting extremely worried that Gray didn't know his colors. After he spent an afternoon with a friend while I was out, I discovered that Grayson did in fact know all of his colors. He just didn't want to do them for me. And so the story has gone with a great deal of Grayson's learning. I repeatedly try to teach him things, the same things that I would be teaching any child his age, but most of the time I feel like he just isn't as open to learning from his mom as he would be someone else. But things have started to change over the past week. All of a sudden things have started to click, and all of the various things I feel like I have been trying to teach him for the past year are finally making sense. Last Thursday, for instance, Gray suddenly realized that the letter G makes 2 different sounds. His face just lit up as he finally got it and ran around the house singing "G makes 2 sounds, G makes 2 sounds." And when we were driving home from swimming last night, he calls up and tells me "Mommy, I live on ---------- Drive. I call it 3401 ----------Drive."

But my most recent proud mommy moment came today when Gray looked up at me and, unprompted, spelled his name. I was completely blown away and in total awe of my son, who continues to teach me that everything happens in due time. Maybe someday things will "click" for me, too.