Every now and again, little ones seem to take giant leaps forward in the space of a week. This has been one of those weeks. And she suddenly seems so grown up.
She’s starting stringing more words together, ‘coming mum!’, ‘one more minute’. Yesterday, she started having a preference for what she wears. And she hasn’t had a nap in three days. I know. I’m mourning the loss in my own way. It’s a shame these leaps forward don’t involve potty training, because I’d be all into that. But I’m still waiting for it to warm up a bit to give it a red hot go.
But instead of being sad about losing baby, I’m excited about all these developments. Watching her creative personality unfold and develop every day and letting her do her own thing, more and more.
I can also see, the older she gets, the more a newborn is going to a real shock to the system. When you have a longer gap (it will be three years) there are certain things that you get used to being out of the baby stage. Like the fact that when I’m dressing her, she does most of the work, or the fact that I only have to change her nappy a few times a day, or that she can tell me why she’s upset or what she wants, or that she can entertain herself for periods of time, or that she can be in the shower on her own, and more to the point that I’ve just gotten to the stage where I can shower alone.
It will be like starting from the beginning again, and I have visions of myself holding out a sleeve of a jumpsuit, expecting the jellybean to be able to push their arm through. I’m sure I’ll have a bossy three year old to set me straight.
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