Tales of Life with a Girl on the Go

We’ve been reading Before You Were Born by Jennifer Davis which tells the story of a pregnancy in the form: “Before you were born and with # months to go …” Reid is particularly interested in the page that talk about the baby having a tail. She wants to know why but I’ve distracted her with a parallel to the tadpoles that they had at daycare that turned into frogs. It’s good enough, for now at least. She also likes how babies become active at bedtime. Ken mentioned the book at supper last night because it doesn’t describe my labour or Ken’s reaction to getting me to the hospital since my water had broke and we went to the hospital in a more leisurely fashion.

I showed Reid the scrapbook we have that shows me pregnant and then has a picture of her each month since she was born. Most of the picturs are even secured to the page ;+) Reid enjoyed looking at the pictures and described what was happening: “I a piggie”; “I in sled”; “I little” (she said this many times, actually) and that sort of thing. Reid seems to have a soft spot for her baby self. She gets an indulgent, what-a-silly-baby, look on her face when she looks at the pictues.

When Reid got to the section that has group shots, she was naming the other people and pointing to herself and saying “me”. Then, she looked up and said, “There’s a lot of me’s!” and giggled a bit. Ken and I laughed. Her delight at all of the pictures of herself was contagious.  It’s true, you know, there are many, many pictures of Reid in our albums. Reid saw a picture of Dylan and herself and first said “Dylan’s baby” while pointing at Dylan. We corrected her and then she was able to correctly identify Dylan and herself the next time. “We babies!” When Reid saw a more recent picture of them, she said, “Dylan a kid. Reid a kid.” Aren’t they that and more!

How about you, are your kids fascinated by their own babyhood?

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