The last few weeks have been crazy for me and the Goo. Many things have changed. I have started a business, she has met new little friends, she has learned to run not just walk, and she has had others take care of her in Mommy's absence. The most amazing thing to change is Miss Gabriella's vocabulary. Everyday it seems like she has a new word that she can say. So far has said, Daddy, Dog, yeah, yay, again, pink, book, her own name-Gabby Goo, thank you, and Mama. The first four words are words she had prior to turning one. The last, Mama seems to be her favorite and is spoken incessantly!
Gabriella has now realized that I am Mama. She mutters the word as she plays and smiles at me. She sqeals it when she is purely elated with herself. She yells it when she wants me to come to her and other times cries, Mama-mama-mama when i leave. I realize that she has power over me with this word, Mama. I have always been attentive, always by her side even when it becomes tiresome but now she seems to wield special power over me, just by uttering that word.
Today, as Gabriella was saying, "yeah, yeah, mama", I realized what power that word, Mama, truly has over me. More so I never knew one word could mean so many things. "Mama" seems to mean, look at me, play with me, I need you, I love you, I want you, never leave me, and yes, still many more things. I absolutely adore that she calls to me in her sweet high pitched timbre. I think she knows that as long as she says "Mama" I will always be there for her. She is my world, my magic, my joy, and as long as she needs me I will never leave her. So the Gabriella can scream Mama from the rooftops, or whisper it in her bed, and I will always hear her, running to her, that of course seems to be the secret power of "Mama".
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