I do believe there are challenges up ahead for me!

Mother- hood itself is a challenge, but we do it because we love it and we love our family. There are moments though, when I look at my son, and I think, I've got a long road ahead of me. 99% of the time, Wyatt is a perfect little boy. He rarely has tantrums, and though I'm noticing he is testing his independence much more as a three year old, we really didn't have the terrible two's. He is good in his nursery class, quite the leader and helper, I'm told. And I think he does pretty well in his preschool class, I would hope the moms would tell me if he was a little terror. But then come the moments where I get a glimpse of what he's going to be as a teenager.

Wyatt loves things that go fast. His favorite ride at Disneyland is the Matterhorn. He is a thrill seeker. He loves riding his big wheel bike down the driveway into traffic as fast as he can possible go (I stop him before he reaches the street, don't freak out). If you challenge him to do it with his eyes closed, he will accept the challenge, eyes closed, AND no hands. I'm pretty sure Wyatt thinks he is a contestant in the X Games. Before you know it, he's going to be going off ramps, kicking his heels behind him in mid-air.

I do believe Wyatt thinks he's a rock star. When we're playing Guitar Hero, it is absolutely essential that Wyatt have the other guitar so that he can perform. I do mean "perform." Foot is tapping, knee is bobbing, hip is to the side to "look cool," and head his bobbing up and down to the beat, all while the fingers are strumming the guitar. Periodically, you will hear him yell, "Yeah! That's how you do it!" and he'll swirl around in a turn, just to entertain you with his flair. The other day, I played the Kid Bopz version of Gavin Degraw's "I Don't Wanna Be" while driving home from the library. The guitar started strumming and immediately Wyatt's head started bobbing to the beat, a commen occurance when ever he hears a song with a guitar making a beat (I'm sure there's a term for that, but I have n idea what it is). Then, all of a sudden, my barely-three year old son yelled, "Yeah! I like this song!" I wish I had a recording of it. It was not said in a sweet little boys voice. It had a rhaspiness to it. As though he were standing in the back of a concert hall at an Aerosmith concert. Now it is a requirement that "I Don't Wanna Be" is played as loud as possible in the car where ever we go.

So, 15 years from now, please do not judge me if my son is a BMX stunt rider that plays lead guitar in a heavy metal band. Know that I have had this trial all my son's life! On the bright side, maybe Wyatt will win the gold medal in those X Games, get millions of dollars in sponsors, and start his own record label. Then he'll buy a simple beach side mansion in Malibu for his mother. I would think by then, Wyatt's mother would deserve it.