It is amazing how much we are shedding the baby part of our
lives. Everyone orders a meal at restaurants, we get four opinions on what we
are doing/eating, the diaper bag has morphed into a temporary emergency haz-mat
kit now that she is in undies. At her first dentist appointment this week she
sat in the dentist chair like a big kid- with Andrew and my assurance. She is
deep in the independent stage and can pretty successfully dress herself and
buckle the top portion of her car seat depending on how much time you give her.
And, the most amazing of all, we can say to the kids “let’s go guys” and more
often than not they both ambulate themselves in the general direction of the
command (MMV).
It is pretty cool.
It is also interesting how this kid likes to throw us
curveballs we never experienced with Andrew. Like when Michael went into her
room on Sunday morning to her standing there as a free bird. She is such a nut…will
we have to free range her already!?!?!?!
When we decided to
try for another kid the idea of siblinghood wasn’t a very clear picture nor was
it a huge goal of mine. But, wow! It is pretty damn precious. Even at this
stage it is pretty fun to see how they know each other’s buttons- the things
that make the other crazy and the things that make the other happy. They play
together, they help each other, they clobber each other. You can definitely see
the influence of her big bro in her for better and for worse—she says “na,na,na
boo boo” a delightful phrase Andrew picked up on the streets.
This kid is a joy and a delight and hard work and wonderful.
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