Nee-Nee

I KNEW that I had more to talk about in my "what's goin' on" post, but I couldn't think of what it was when I was writing it, so now they get their OWN post.

THIS BOY... melts my heart!

As she mentioned on her blog, last Friday I went to pick up Natalie and Bennett from the pool so they could hang out at my house before Stephen picked them up to head to the beach. When I started walking toward Bennett who was on the other side of the pool to help Nat take things to the car, Bennett literally started RUNNING toward me all sqealy and excited and fell into my arms w/ a big hug. At first, I just figured he did that to anyone, but then Natalie told me that, NO, he knew it was ME, his AuniE, and that's why he came running! Ah, this is what I've been waiting for, looking forward to... he's growing up! :)

Then, after his nap we were playing on my bed, well, more like, "AuniE and Bennett jumping on the bed" (AKA teaching him a no-no). We had been trying to get him to say my name (he will pretty much try to say anything you ask him to) by saying:

"Bennett can you say AuniE/Erin" (either one)

and he wouldn't respond with anything.

Then Natalie just pointed to me and asked him:

"Bennett who is that?"

and he said "Nee-Nee!" with a huge smile on his face!!!

That's when I melted! He didn't say MiMi (my mom), but with an N, NENE (what the end of AUNIE sounds like)! His little mind is amazing and he had been listening all along and knew my name!

So those are my 2 exciting Aunt moments lately. :) I'm sure there will be more after this weekend at the beach :)

(and these pictures are from back when his momma and daddy went on their cruise a few months ago and my momma and i took him to the park for the day; i just never posted them or sent them to natalie)