On weekdays (mostly by default) I am usually the one who would be doing the
evening routine with Spud as I am a lot closer to home from my
office as compared to Silver Bullet.
Spud usually has ants in her pants and we all know that she cannot keep still! However, in the last few months or so, a different side of her emerged as her tolerance to sit still gets better and her attention span to the TV gets longer.
Since then, the best part about the evening ritual for me is
the fact that she can sit still on my lap for a good half hour as she finishes
up her milk while we both watched whatever it was she requested for. (And this
could be Happy Feet for the7 th time for 7 straight days for the
last one month or so – and to date, we still haven’t quite watch the entire
movie because she usually gets bored after 10 minutes and will ask to switch to
Gruffalo, Nemo or George The Monkey)
It doesn’t matter though – it still is the best part of the
day. It is the only time when I get to
cuddle up with her, babble or sing along with her, shower her with hugs and
kisses as she sits quietly on my lap for a little bit before putting her to
bed. Without protest!
I get sentimental these days as I realized that she is also
showing stronger sense of independence. While she does tolerate the little cuddles
to a certain extent, Spud also much prefer to sit independently as she sips her
milk while watching TV.
Sometimes, just me picking
her up to put her on my lap will rile her up in a crying protest!
A cliché to be saying this I know – but really, I am amazed as to how much and how fast Spud is growing up. Very soon, she’ll be resisting all those little cuddles we used to have as our evening rituals. Very soon, she won’t be a bumbling toddler and I won’t have the chance to carry her in my arms anymore.
She will, very soon, be her own little person…an independent
girl with her ways about the world.
It is only a matter of time…
As it is, I could hardly carry her for long these days and I
sometimes miss it. She has gotten so
heavy now that I don’t have the strength or energy to be carrying her or I’ll
break my hip!
And with Spud’s recent desire for independence to want to do
things on her own, I get even more sentimental as I realize how precious a time
it is to be spending as much time as we can with the little baby we have.
And that I now realized it is okay to be carrying the little
child most of the time when she’s still a tiny little baby, because, before you
know it, 4 years have passed and there is no turning back!
Sometimes, when I checked on her before we go to bed, I
almost wish that I could pick her up and cuddle up with her in bed her while
she is sleeping . (But I also know that that would not be a wise thing to do –
so that is unlikely to happen)
Looking back, I am so glad I got into baby wearing as
seriously as I have always done, for, once Spud passes the stage of toddlerhood, we can
never go back this way again.
I guess it is true when “they” keep telling us that kids
grow up too fast!
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