Moo-wah!

Canaan has this really funny obsession with the moon. When he was a really little baby, BJ and I were taking a walk with him around the neighborhood and he saw the moon for the fist time. His eyes got wide and his arm shot up with a dramatic point towards the sky. For a long time since then he will always try and find images of the moon in his books (since a lot of our books seem to revolve around bedtime it's easy to do). If we flip past the page to read on he's quick to stop us and head back to the glorious moon page.

Then this past June when he first started to open up verbally his first word (beyond "this", "Mama" and "Dada") was "moon". Walking out of church after the last day of VBS he quickly noticed the moon, pointed up and shouted "MOO!" (yep, I about cried). "Moo" has evolved into "moo-wah" as he works on finding the "n', but his meaning is clear. The boy loves the moon.

A few weeks ago (after I'd begun this long stint in bed) BJ and his Mom took Canaan out for a little walk. He marched around the house with a determination to find and point out the moon to them. BJ said he tried to stop him since it was the middle of the day, but sure enough Canaan found it quickly hiding behind our house.

Today I've been working on our 2011 family album and I of course had to create and add in a bit of the moon to remember this stage of Canaan's life where something so simple could hold his attention & imagination so intensely. Life is magic at this age. And we love that boy to the moo-wah and back.