It’s amazing how fast babies grow. I mean if you don’t experience it first hand, I guess it would be difficult to see just how amazing it is.

Take last night for example. Mateo was having one of his fits. Andrea went outside the room to cool off and relax a bit before she could go back to letting him suck again, so I was left alone with mateo.

I knew I had to do something or he would end up wailing like crazy asking for mama. So instead of carrying him, I immediately asked him with a disturbing voice where’s the ball mateo?. I wanted to distract him by making him look for something other than andrea – his favorite ball.

Amazingly, he did stop crying. Afterwards, he started moving around the bed turning over pillows to look for something. When he couldn’t find what it was, an evil idea occurred to me. I wanted to know what mateo would do if he sees me looking frustrated. Haha! So I pushed on with my question, this time with an angry face to match the tone.  Would he think that I’m getting frustrated because he couldn’t find the ball? I had to see…

Honestly, I thought he would just ignore me. So I surprised when he just started pointing at a stuff toy at the corner of the headboard. Was he trying to distract me with the toy? I had to check so I pushed on with the same tone. Then, looking determined, he went and took the toy. Afterwards, he hugged the stuff toy and started smiling at me. It seems that he’s really bent on taking my mind off the ball. He looked at me again and then he did the same thing all over again. He was indeed trying to distract me. I couldn’t restrain my excitement when I realized what he was doing, so I smiled. And then, as if realizing he was successful in his attempt, he smiled too.

My little boy just tried to beat me at my own game. I wanted to distract him from his mama and he ended up distracting me. I was just so amazed. Babies are just really so amazing.