Being away last weekend helped me see ‘my baby’ in a new light. Surrounded by family, she thrived on the new experiences presented to her. From playing the piano to feeding fish in the garden pond, from eating and playing with her four year old aunty to sharing a family meal on sunday. There were many new faces for her, many new experiences and to my surprise she took it all in her stride.
Erin’s always been very outgoing and confident, but now I’m seeing an independant streak, my nineteen month old suddenly seems rather grown up. She played the piano like she’d done it a dozen times, back straight, fingers tinkling away. She played well with her aunty, and they shared lunch at a miniature table and chairs. Up until now Erin has always had her meals in her highchair, but after seeing her sitting nicely in a chair, eating with an acceptable amount of manners and decorum, with minimal mess, I know now that it’s time to make the move. The miniature table and chairs has joined the ‘most needed’ list.
Following that lunch, we then had a sunday dinner where she sat (propped up) at an adult table, again, she ate her dinner and desert and seemed to really thrive on the social aspect of being truly together (not in a highchair), she wouldn’t let me help her with dinner insisting on persevering, with success. Since the weekend I haven’t fed or helped her at all, she is now mastering the use of a fork and it feels like the baby days are long gone. The highchair as mentioned will make way imminently for a new, and grown up, table and chairs. And then there’s the cot, which will be culled around christmas time, if not before. And then after christmas the potty training. And then the baby days will truly be gone.
6 Responses to “She’s Growing Up”
Way to go Erin! And way to go Erica, for encouraging her in her independence and new-found skills. It’s true the baby days are fast disappearing - but what a beautiful girl is taking their place.
Thanks MaL, you know what I’m talking about
Beanie will be learning all this new stuff too.
Only 19months! You are scaring me, Billy not far off that! Funny you should mention the highchair, in my usual cheapscate way i ordered a secondhand stokke trip trapp off ebay last night so he can sit up to the dining room table. (ex-display)
But seriously its great that she getting her own independence and been her very own little person rather than a baby
It all just seemed to happen at once Emma.
Nice one with the ex-display I bet it will be practically new. Those type of things get hammered in the first five minutes anyway!
Ikea do lovely little colourful coffee tables in the main shop and really bright chereful stools that are exactly the right height to match with them in the kids shop…. worked perfecetly for us until I declared her big enough to sit at a big talbe on a (Ikea) Junior chair.
I used to leave a drink bottle and a snack on the table all the time so she could help herself during the day if she wanted, she still thinks dried fruit is “sweeties”!
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