Here are a few pictures of other ways she helps.
She loves to feed Littlest
Keeping down the cowlicks
Making sure Littlest’s snaps are all snapped
Walking the dogs
When we went to visit Grandma in Central Oregon last month, Bug and Daddy visited the neighbor and her six-year-old daughter. They have a trampoline and Bug got her first taste of the big bounce! She loved it. Every time we went outside, she pointed over to the neighbors and uttering something I’m sure meant “Take me over there to bounce right now!”
One final note…I failed greatly as a mother last night. I have always shown Bug things as we shop and she 99% of the time hands it back and says “No” after a while. I showed her this at Costco:
Specifically I handed her the doll and the bassinet. I showed her how to put the dolly to bed with her head on the pillow and put the blanket on the dolly and then say “night night” and kiss the doll. She did this over and over and over. When I tried to take it back, a quiet struggle ensued. So we (Daddy and I) decided to finish our shopping and then she would be done playing and we could put the stuff back. It didn’t work out that way. She was attached, big time! We finally devised a plan of distractin. We went over to the sparkly Disney clothes and while I wowwed her with all the pretty things and covered up the toy, Daddy took the stuff and dashed off. Bug wasn’t having it. She kept pushing away the clothes and looking for her baby. Once she discovered it was gone…oh my God did she throw a fit. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth. She was tired to begin with and this just put her over the edge. I felt horrible. She hasn’t attached to anything specific like a blanket or doll, so I never thought this would do it. We planned to get this for her for Christmas long before this episode happened and were waiting for the next payday. I learned a valuable lesson. I go now…
