Connor Remembers !

Connor has changed so much over the past year, especially over the past 6 months. I had a lightbulb moment as I realized that one of the biggest things is that he remembers stuff. This sound so mundane, and frankly, obvious, but it's pretty neat.

Mike and I have spent the past three years doing tons of stuff to create special moments for him. Special memories.

They were really our memories. 

Sure, I know he remembers hugs and love and snuggley moments, but he probably won't remember lots of the little stuff that we did. I think that from now, he might, which feels cool. We were talking about birthdays, and he knew that his was on the 26th. And without missing a beat, he mentioned his Batman and "move it" (Madagascar) cakes that he got to this year. For school, he picked out his cake at Wegman's, and he picked Batman. The topper had a magnet, so Batman balanced on his toes, ready to leap off the building.

We went to Sara's birthday a few weeks later and he fell in love with her "move it" cake. I flipped through the cake book, trying to pick the perfect cake for his moon bounce party, and kept going back to the Madagascar cake, and finally picked that one. He calls that movie "move it" because there is a song in it that he loves where they sing "move it move it".

We'll keep doing the special things - and I can't wait for that time years from now when he says, "Mom, remember that time we made cupcakes with the little pumpkins for the school bake sale? That was fun!".