_ Every morning for the last few months, when my son wakes up, I bring him into our bed, and inevitably he cuddles with Momma for all of five seconds before he decides to crawl over to Dada. And every morning I tell Tuck, “if you want Dada to wake up you have to say Dada. Da-Da. Da-Da. Wake up Da-Da.”

Now part of me thought this was funny, and part of me really hoped he just pop off one morning and shock us both, his first words being, “wake up Dada.” Either way I knew it was a long ways off.

A couple nights a week my husband and I would play “Momma Dada” with the baby where we take turns saying it with different tonality and dialect, sometimes even in the form of a question, “Momma? Or Dada?”

I’m fairly certain our mouth twisting mumbling just looked like a rare and goofy version of baby charades but none the less, he seemed to have a good time, straining his neck to look at whoever was talking.

Eventually I started calling Dennis (our Golden Retreiver) “Dennis. The dog.” And after awhile Dennis lost his name all together and just became “The dog.” And shortly after that almost everything was coined with one word and a point of my finger, “Tree.” “Ba-Ba.” “Milk.” “Hot.” “Bath.”

But Tuck was far too busy working on his motor skills to do anything more than grunt. In those couple weeks he learned how to wave hello, high-five and even clap. One Wednesday morning, I got up to leave for my one-day-a-week job and while waving I said, “Bye Tuck, Bye Dada!”

Tuck gave me a good solid clap in return and I headed out the door. My husband was to drop Tuck off to spend a few hours with his Pops. And within thirty minutes I received a text message from my husband and I was in the middle of a session with a client when it popped up on my phone.

“I think Tuck said Dada.”

Immediately after my session I blew up my husband’s phone, “What? Seriously? Where, when, how? Are you sure? Call me.”

But my husband didn’t call. I figured he was busy at work, so I called my next client in.

Then, around 6pm I got another text message. “Yup. He’s definitely saying Dada.”

When I got home that night Tuck was asleep, so the next morning I brought him in bed like usual. We cuddled and within a few seconds he was crawling on top of his Dad. Having just woken from slumber I just blurted out my usual, “If you want him to wake up you have to say Dada.”

I expected the typical response, “grrr gaaaahhhhhhh geeeeehhhh” and instead I got, “DA-DA!” clear as day. I couldn’t not believe what I had just heard.

My husband who’d been half awake the whole time rolled over with a huge smile on his face and scooped up his little guy, putting him in a Daddy lock and smothering him with tickles and kisses.

My heart absolutely melted. I had the joy of carrying him for 40 weeks, and I had wanted nothing more than for him to say Dada first. But I never thought it would feel so special and sound so absolutely adorable.

In the next few days, Tuck learned how to crawl over the other side of me, and peer over the edge to the floor and say, “DAWG.” The first time I just started whooping and hollering, “Yes! That’s right! That’s Dennis, the DOOGGG.”

Everyone is pending his next word, which with my luck will probably be “Nana” and then “Ba-Ba” but someday he’s going to say Momma. And that is going to be one of the best days of my life.

 

 


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