So the highlight of my day today was E helping R walk. She walked behind her, holding her hands, while R just plowed right along from the living room to the dining room to the kitchen. The funny part about all this is that R weighs maybe half of what E does, so when R pitches forward uncontrollably, E is…
Category: Mothering
They say time flies.
It’s interesting, as R gets older, to see how my perceptions of her growing are different than they were from those of E. I suppose I don’t have time to pay as much exclusive attention to her–and since I know now the general course of infancy and early toddlerhood, I’m less eager for it to speed on by–and so the…
Making R Giggle
One of the most precious things I’ve ever seen is the sight of E playing with R and successfully making her laugh. R has a wonderful laugh–if I do say so myself–very giddy and infectious, but it is not particularly easy to make her laugh without tickling her. But E manages to make her laugh quite often. Usually this is…