Beach baby

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

She has started calling herself “baby” in conjunction with pointing at her own picture, and it kills me, it kills me dead with its cuteness. Words still pop in and out of her vocabulary though, and most of the time you wouldn’t know what word she is trying to pronounce unless you, well, speak Carlita. I still have a hard time understanding her, and I listen to her babble all day long (especially since she is cutting naps like a jaded teen cuts classes, but that is hardly anything new.)

There has been loads of cuddles for me lately, and it makes me all soft and gooey. Even though we have always gotten along well (can we just say she was, like, the most laid back baby, ever!), I’ve never been very good at interacting with her in her awesome babyness*, and it saddens me that she no longer is a baby, that I won’t ever get a chance to do it right with her - and as much as I want to give her a sibling, it scares me even more to think I might not manage any better with #2. Or, you know, what if I did do better second time around? THE GUILT!

*I suck at baby talk, I suck at the repetitiveness that is baby play. Probably the only thing I did really well was breastfeeding and we quit that when she was 17 months - lesson learned! If/when there is a next time I’m going to breastfeed for as long as it’s wanted.

If anyone has any good toddler activity ideas to send my way, it would be greatly appreciated.

Carlita, Parenting, Photo

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