One of my favorite things about being a teacher was seeing the look of pride and accomplishment in the eyes of a student that achieved their goal. I get choked up just thinking about it. As a mother, I am overwhelmed with pride (and tears) when I see my children with that look in their hazel eyes.
My little Braxton has given me a glimpse of how much determination he has. We discovered a new park last week. Braxton discovered the monkey bars. We have been at parks with monkey bars before, but these monkey bars are only 5 feet off of the ground. Brax gave it a shot. He would get a few bars in and let go. He would get back up and try again. I didn't think much of it at first, but then Brax started to get a little mad. I could tell he was frustrated and his little hands were starting to hurt. I told him to take a break and try later. He wouldn't hear of it. He made it his mission to conquer them. I began taking video of his attempts to cross 7 green bars. I must have taken 20 videos. I wanted to be sure that I captured that look in my little boys eyes. I was helping Colton with the swing when Braxton started to cross without the camera rolling. I ran over to take a video. My boy did it. The look on his face was priceless. His eye lit up and his chest was puffed out (I think mine was too). When I went back to show him the video, it was not there. In my rush to get to the monkey bars, I did not push play. Ahhh!
This video was taken on our next trip to the park
