What the heck?! What happened?
I mean, I know She's the big "One", and I know She keeps growing every day, but....what happened?! Little One went to bed last night, not a teeny infant, sure, but more or less a baby. She woke up a full-on toddler. What?! All day She has been going around doing grown-up toddlery things She's never done before, as if She's done them forever. She picks up Her glass, takes a drink and sets it down, without spilling. One handed. She cleans up Her toys. She puts one foot on Her walker wagon and pushes with the other, scooter-ing around the living room. She talks! With real words that are almost entirely intelligible! Where did my baby Little One go? I didn't even get to say goodbye! Well. I guess there's some Halloween witchcraft out that makes babies morph into toddlers while they sleep. I admit She's an outrageously fun toddler, so it's not all bad. But I'll tell you one thing. Halloween night, when She's twelve? NO ONE SLEEPS.
There is a song about that. Do you remember the one that always made your grandmother cry? Well, now it makes me cry, too. And so it goes. The name of the song is Turn Around.
ReplyDelete"Where are you going, my little one, little one. Where are you going, my baby my own? Turn around and you're tiny, turn around and you're grown, turn around and you're a young wife with babes of you're own."
ReplyDeleteNow it's my turn to cry to this sweet song.