Be My Little Baby

 Being a "Baby"

Being a Big Girl

When O was a baby, she didn't like being wrapped up like a baby.

She is all for suggesting swaddling now that she is growing so quickly out of babyhood. Far too fast for me, but sometimes I think too fast for her too.

I remember reading that it's always good, no matter how old your child is, to make them feel like a baby every once in a while. It is a good way to connect with those early feel-good days when you are in someone's arms most of the time; spoken to with high-pitched coo's and blamed for absolutely nothing but your perfectness.

Being a toddler has to be hard work. 

You want to do everything you see everyone else doing, but your body just can't keep up! O is your typical toddler, soaking up everything she see's and hear's like a sponge, only to repeat our actions and words when we would least likely want her to; oblivious to us that she was paying attention at all, until it is far too late! 

O likes to be wrapped up in a blankie, rocked like a baby and smirks when I give her the high-pitched "OOH you are such a CUTE little baby..coochie coochie coo!!"

Then once she has had her fill of baby time and fueled up to return to the wacky world of toddlerhood, she is back to being a Big Girl, holding a pencil in her mouth as we wrap up wood projects and choosing the tall stool to sit on, even though the small one is sitting right there!