My sweet baby girl has felt left out quite a lot recently. I don’t think it’s intentional, but I usually find her running to find me and then wrapping her arms around my legs crying, “Mama, hold me.”
Last week we sat in the livingroom and she handed me some of her dehydrated apples and cranberries. Thinking she was engrossed in the movie, I walked back to my bedroom and started flipping through the catalog, only meaning to be there for a second or two. But just as I was getting up to walk back to the livingroom, I noticed my little princess peering around the corner. She ran to the bed, climbed on, and proceeded to share her snack.
Today I tried to get in some exercise and she continued to hover very close to me, asking me to hold her. My eldest was playing a game and her brother was trying to put something together in the playroom, and no one was including the Buttercup. So I picked her up and we ventured on back to the bedroom. She feels left out a lot, so I decided to share a secret.
She’s only 2 1/2, so I figured she wouldn’t “get it.” I said, “You can’t tell the others, but Mama has a baby in her tummy.”
“Mama? Baby? Tummy?” she asked as she pointed to my tummy and smiled.
“Yep, and it’s a secret.”
She patted my tummy, leaned over and kissed it, patted it again and said, “Baby.”
Maybe she’s able to understand more than I give her credit for.
It’s all I can do to get her to give me a kiss on the cheek, but she didn’t hesitate once, even without prompting, to give her little sister or brother a kiss. This is a good attitude I hope to keep up, because the Buttercup very much enjoys being the baby in this family.
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Melanie says
Beautiful Pictures! And what a precious little buttercup!!!
And, don’t forget, OUR family has TWO “baby of of the family”s. Yes, Lindsay & Kristen were BOTH the “baby”… but only Kristen is allowed to be called that. (Regardless, mom insists that even after Kristen was born, we all still refererred to Lindsay as “the baby”!!!)
Our Family: says
Really???? Hmmmmm….do you think it’s because there was a larger gap in age?
Morgan to Elena is only 3 years. Elena and this baby will be 3 years apart–a whole person is missing! ๐
And yeah, she is truly precious, isn’t she? ๐