Beautiful Moment

So Little Buddy is just learning he has to say PLEASE for things. I just recently started to introduce THANK YOU as well, but waited awhile so as not to confuse. I feel that the PLEASE is first priority. So now when we go to the dry cleaners and the lady gives him a lollipop or he demands something he wants really bad I insist on PLEASE. Then I try for the THANK YOU whenever possible. It comes out more like "TANKOOO," which is perfectly fine with me for it is close enough and gets the general message across. Not thinking that this had really sunk in yet, I didn't think I would hear it without prompting for a long time.

This weekend Cop Dad and (retired) Cop Grandpa decided to stain our cedar fence. I was on Little Buddy duty and lunch duty. On day two of the fence staining I picked up lunch for all of us and went home and started to eat with Little Buddy (Cop Grandpa and Cop Dad) wanted to finish the fence before eating and we were starving). After LB was done eating I asked him if he wanted a cookie. I had bought some large peanut butter cookies at Subway. As I'm sure LB is used to getting some little toddler cookies of some sort usually, his eyes got really big as I handed him one of the large peanut butter cookies. He was so excited. He grabbed it and said, "Mommie!" Then gasped very deeply. Then said, "Tankooo!"

I could not believe how grateful he was for the cookie and said thank you in his own way. I was touched and excited all at once. It was a very cool and sweet and beautiful moment. I rubbed his head a bunch and hugged him and cheered with a smidge of a lump in my throat and squeak in my voice.