Honey

Before I quit my job to stay home with Alex full time, Alex called me "Mama".  I haven't heard the word "Mama" since September.  I rarely refer to myself in the third person when talking to him and John only calls me "Honey", so I suspect the loss of the word "Mama" in Alex's vocabulary is due to the fact that he very rarely hears the word.  I've been kind of sad about this recently, he's picking up more words every week, and I keep wanting my boy to call me something.  Usually when he wants me he lets out an unintelligible yell as if to say "Woman!  Get over here and change my diaper!"  But today, he was cuddling with me on the sofa, I was saying things to him like "I'm your Mama" and "Mama loves you!"  He looked right into my eyes and said "Honey" with a big grin on his face, then hugged me.  Not quite the title I was hoping for from my son, but I'll take it.