A Big Bag of Firsts

This weekend started off just like all other weekends, which meant friends,  pizza, and soccer.  This weekend my girl was able to have a couple of friends over to just hang out.  We miss our old neighborhood when it comes to being able to have friends over.  Our girl had several friends that could just walk over for an hour or my favorite moments would be when we would have enough kids collect at the house for a soccer game.  Those days were rare but they did happen and those moments were fun for my girl.  While my girl is enjoying her time with some friends my boy experienced some of his firsts and when those moments happen I tend to celebrate the moment over and over in my head.  Now I want to remind you that we do celebrate the little things around here and when I talk about these firsts they are BIG in every aspect of the word BIG. 

Friday my girl placed her brother at the bar in the kitchen to eat breakfast.  The reason this is such a BIG deal is because he has never liked sitting up high on things.  He has now eaten three meals at the bar while I am busy in the kitchen.  I like having him in the kitchen with me.  Everyday he takes another step closer to us and this is worth playing over and over in my head.  This moment would not have happened if my girl didn't react to something that bothered her brother in the dining room and move him quickly into the kitchen and sit him at the bar.  So this is number one of three firsts. 

The second came at my girls soccer game today.  My boy truly dislikes going to these and we set up a huge umbrella that shields the noise and creates his own space away from everyone.  Today his space was invaded by four other kids at the game.  Again this is one of those moments that I know I over think and try not to say or do something that will bring the moment to an end.  I truly don't know how it all happened but the kids were interested in the iPad and I told my boy that we were going to share and let the others watch.  He did point them away at first but they watched a whole episode of Team Umizoomi together.  BIG stuff here.  The third BIG thing that happened also took place at the soccer game.  My boy drank from a water bottle without a straw.  Ask me why all of this happened today.  I don't know.  We were just doing what all the other people were doing today and somewhere along the way we hit jackpot and found a big bag of firsts.