Franklin said Mommy for the first time today!

He said it like he has known the word for months but thought it would be fun to hold out on me.

At daycare, we have made him a collage of pictures to post up on the children's family tree. There is picture of me, D and other family members holding Franklin. In the beginning, it used to help soothe him after I had left for work. He still likes to look at it and will walk over to the wall, point up and say "Daddy!" "Bapa!"(Grandma) etc...

Today, at lunch, I was holding him and asking him where Daddy was, where Grandma was, where Franklin was....
Finally, I asked him where Mommy was and instead of pointing to the butterfly next to the collage like he usually does ("Butta-iy"), he enthusiastically yelled, "Mommy!" and pointed to my smiling face!

It was beautiful, amazing and such a personal moment. No one else heard him, everyone was either in the nap room, feeding or changing a diaper.
It was just Franklin and I, looking very pleased with ourselves.