Tavy doesn't like me to touch my belly. I, however, love to feel Junior kick as I just couldn't feel as much externally as I can this time. This leads to conflict, which she often tries to mitigate by deciding that SHE will touch my belly, but I am not allowed.
Dear Junior, this is where I apologize for whatever auditory and neurological stress that results when 30 pounds of gleeful-yet-vindictive toddler lands on your happy home hollering "I touch de baby now! Not you!" She likes that if she "listens" to my belly occasionally she gets her ear kicked. But, she got bored of "feeling the baby wif my ear!" and moved on to "I feel the baby with my mouth! Baby kick my mouth!" and tonight, "I feel the baby with my bottom!" Creativity. It's the mark of a truly wonderful big sister. I should know.
She asked me today if the new baby can go with her to school and to the store, and I said, yes, of course. However, I also wonder if she is cataloging places we can LEAVE the baby as she also informed me that "They no have baby at school! Need baby there!" One hopes she means show-and-tell, and not "Welcome to your new bassinet, otherwise known as the sensory table."
She also needed to tell me that there was no room for the baby in the shopping cart at the store today. I reminded her that tiny babies ride in slings, not carts. She thought about this for a minute. "And big sister WALKS! NO CART" Sigh.
She wanted to know if my baby likes cheese (yes, (s)he does!) because she doesn't. And if my baby wants some ice cream, it better get his/her own bowl because "Dis baby like it lots and lots! Dis your tiny baby eating ice cream!" Says the imp with the two tiniest pigtails ever.
And tonight, as I left her to Daddy for the bedtime routine, she ran up and told me, "I gotta tell your baby something!"
This sounded serious so I sat down.
She got very close and looked like she might be going to drum on my belly (something I discourage), so I moved my hands to her shoulders, but she bent forward, touching my belly with her forehead and yodeled at top volume:
"MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY!!!!"
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