Caíthlyn's Blog

Blogging about our Little Miss. Family 2 pregnancy

Monday, February 21, 2005

Little Mamma

Now that her Daddy is back to work again, Caíthlyn and I have Thursday's and Friday's all to ourselves. It took us half a day to get used to it but then we were back in to the full swing of it. The poor little sausage, she was so used to having her Daddy with her all day, every day, and then we went and changed the whole routine on her.
She was very tired that first morning and so we had lots of tears and tantrums. Truth be told, it put the sh*ts up me!
After she had a great sleep in my arms though, she was back to her loving, cheery self! Thank Flip for that!

I was doing the dishes in the kitchen when Little Miss came in with her "Zippy" (An "Early Learning Bunny: zipper, buttons, velcro) and "Barney" (Yes, the Purple Blob has infiltrated our home aswell...)
Like a real little Mamma, she lays them beside each other, next to the kitchen chair. She sits on her hunkers and chats a bit to them. Then, with a decisive nod of her head and a "ya ya" towards her babies, she gets up and gets a plastic tumbler out of the kitchen press. She closes the press-door again, every so matter of fact-ly, and croutches down again next to "Zippy". She puts her left hand under her (Zippy is a Girl) head and holds the tumbler to her lips. Making sucking noises and when she puls the cup away again she says:"Aaaahhh" Then she does the same for Barney.

I was so amazed at the TLC she exibited towards her Teddies. She was so methodical. When she went back in to the livingroom, she held them in her arms and patted them whilst saying "There, there there" (Well, she said "Tè, tè, tè" but we know what she meant!)

When I took too long finishing up the dishes, she and Barney just planted themselves at my feet on the floor. Mohammed and the mountain or what? She looked up at me with those huge, beautiful, innocent eyes which spoke Volumes. "What's more important Mamma? Dishes or me?"

Within seconds we sat on the sofa and did our shapes.........