Oh, god, that’s so hard to answer.  There are so many little things I love.  But I guess the best part is seeing how Nathan changes as he gets older.  How his personality develops and certain things really excite him and others don’t.  Parts of his personality have seemed fixed from almost the day we brought him to that hotel suite in Chicago, but others change or become refined as he develops. 

While it’s happening, you don’t really think about it.  You just enjoy each little milestone as it happens and meet him where he is.  And if this week his favorite music Gustafer Yellowgold because Chris took him to a concert at the Los Angeles Public Library where all the kids danced to “I am From the Sun,” and his “Rocket Shoes” t-shirt is his absolute favorite, well, you just make sure that music is available in both cars, and the nanny’s ipod, and in the living room, and you learn all the words to “I Jump on Cake” and enjoy the moment.  Because in a few weeks or months, he’ll have a different favorite or a new skill, and this will be a fond memory and you’ll be cheering him in some new adventure, like toilet training.

The truth is, Nathan just keeps getting cooler and more interesting.  Each stage he’s been in, I’ve loved while we were in it, but then he learns to sit up, or crawl, or walk, or dance, and it just gets better.  Or he make finger paint pictures he’s so proud of we have to tape them to the fridge because these new stainless steel appliances aren’t magnetic.  And it would be easy to forget what those early days were like, and next month I’d probably forget what this time is like, but I’m really lucky that my partner won’t let me.  Chris takes so many pictures, but more than that, he makes sure we can see them.  He got an Apple-TV he’s loaded them all onto, and when we’re in front of the TV and not streaming a show, they’ll just start showing up, like a screen saver.  And it’s completely random… something from Nathan’s first month, and then sitting up shaking a toy, then at the beach, then in the hospital, and then a piece of his art… but it’s all there, and you can really see how he’s changed… how we’ve all changed.  Because those random pictures, that’s the history of our family.  And I never thought I was going to have that.  And I just feel really, really lucky.