2/12/2014

His memories.



I sighed when I heard his little feet patter across the floor.

I had once again gotten up early to write, only to be joined almost immediately by Cooper, who seems to have a sixth sense that alerts him the minute I open my computer.

He wandered into my office, all warm and cozy in that rosy, half-asleep way that only only little kids seem to have.  He climbed into my lap and kissed the tip of my nose like he always does first thing in the morning and last thing at night, then said "Good morning, Mama.  Can we look at our memories now?"  He snuggled against me and sighed a happy little sigh, because in his world he could not imagine that I wouldn't want to do the same thing, or that I would deny him this simple request.

To look at his memories.

That's what he calls pictures.  He has for as long as I can remember.  It isn't something that I taught him or something that I have ever said to him.  But to him all the pictures stored on my computer are his memories, and he will happily sit for hours looking at them, commenting on every single one. "Oh I remember that day!  Don'y you remember, Mama?  We had such a good time!" 

I opened up my picture file and we looked.  We looked at trips to the park and the zoo and the beach.  We looked at fabulous shots taken with my "fancy" camera and blurry iPhone ones.  We looked at family vacations and ordinary days spent at home and everything in between.  He gasped with joy and commented on each and every one.  "Look Mama!  There we are making a craft!  Aw, I remember that time we went there, don't you, Mama?"  and so on.  And so on. 

After about an hour and without any warning at all, he sighed and stretched and turned around from his perch on my lap to give me one more kiss on the tip of my nose - an extra one on this day.  "I like looking at our memories.  Don't you, Mama?"

And I really did.  

I really, really did.




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17 comments:

  1. Awww. This is heart-melting sweet. I love that he calls pictures "memories" - that is so very perfect.

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  2. OH....this is so beautiful. Cherish that with everything you got. He sounds like he has a giant heart. He'll remember these moments with you in the morning.
    So needed to read an uplifting story today. Thank you :)

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  3. PRECIOUS!!!! I just love those moments... and you described yours beautifully.

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  4. Oh my gosh, how sweet. Cherish these moments. They are so fleeting. I remember my daughter used to call me "mama" and it always melted my heart. Now? I just get the eye-roll. He sounds like such a doll!

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  5. It really is perfect, isn't it? He's such a sweet kid.

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  6. I'm so glad you get something positive out of what I wrote. My boy has the biggest heart, and I love so much that we are creating new memories from our old ones.

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  7. The "Mama" thing will get me every time. Every. Single. Time.

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  8. Awwwwww! What an adorable boy! And what a precious memory the two of you made.

    Try to remember that when he is a teenager.

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  9. Ha! I should add a new tag to this post - "To be read again when my kids are teenagers."

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  10. He would make me cry happy tears, hearing him call pictures "memories." What a sweetheart.

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  11. He really is the sweetest kid. Sometimes I just look at him and wonder how he ended up in the middle of my family, since the rest of us tend toward surly. :) Love him to pieces though.

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  12. Oh, I like looking at memories too!

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  13. It really is the best description of pictures that I've ever heard. Sometimes it takes a kid to point out the obvious to me :)

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  14. This is the sweetest. I hope he always remembers this moment! How wonderful you recorded this memory for him right here. :)

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  15. I sincerely hope that in five years or ten or twenty my kids will look back on the things I've written about them and appreciate it, and not just see it as "Mom's embarrassing me on the internet again." We shall see, I guess.

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  16. That is the sweetest!

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