Come Here!! Look At This!!

As the end of my high school years came to an end, a running joke that my class had was to proclaim that something we were doing was the last time we were ever going to do that activity.  Some of the ones I remember were:

• This is the last time we have a home basketball game
• This is the last time we will ever all go to Taco Bell together
• This is the last time we will ever throw a Mr. Partee Appreciation Day (don't ask).

Those proclamations would typically get a sad reaction from the girls....and then the guys would laugh at them.  Pretty standard stuff, really.

Having your 1st child....is the exact opposite....but still similar.

At least once a day, Emily will yell my name and loudly exclaim to "Come Here Quickly!!!"  Before I have a chance to processs the information, I typically have thrown my laptop onto the ottoman....and hopefully don't pull a muscle in my aging body as I fling myself as quickly as I can to wherever they may be.  Thinking I may enter the room finding limbs missing and an ambulance on the way.....or maybe a wolf has made its way into our house and cornered my wife and child......I typically just see Emily staring at Owen proudly.....look back at me.....and exclaim......."Owen just sucked his thumb for the 1st time."

We've had a lot of "1sts" recently.  I'll share with you a few highlights:

Grabbed my shirt for the 1st time (that one was a while ago)

Found (and utilized) his thumb (Sidenote:  Emily discovered that Owen was sucking his thumb by 5 weeks, and "the book said that 3 month olds typically have found their thumb.....so by comparison....Owen is "advanced".)

Found a different digit to suck on besides his thumb

Discovered his WHOLE hand to suck on

We may have a genius on our hands.