2 thumbs & a dummy

The one thing that both my girls have in common is that as babies, they played well by themselves. I could leave Arianna alone and cook, and she’d happily play with her toys and books. The same goes for KR who would quietly play with her blocks or whatever she can grasp within her reach and entertain herself while I do my own thing. She would of course continuously turn around in circles coz that’s all she can do at this point, no signs of any attempts to crawl just yet.

They are geniuses, you see. MIL is of the opinion that the both of them are/were slow to crawling and walking simply because if one can be carried around, why bother to crawl or walk yourself? *lol* “Smarter than your average bear!” is her normal chirp of the day. It’s funny! And while I have to admit it, after all they are my children…one cannot but wonder what makes a child learn or want to attempt to crawl faster or slower. Is it because I don’t encourage KR to crawl and put her more often on her tummy? I do this every now and then but when I do, she whinges and after some ‘push-ups’, she surrenders and lies her head down to rest. It’s like she can’t be bothered to even try. Once I even got her on her knees with arms supporting herself and all she did was stay in that position until it must have hurt coz them she started to cry. Poor thing!

I’ve sort of given up ‘forcing’ her to try and crawl. And while I do envy kids who are her age and younger being able to do so much more, I think each baby will come by when they are ready. And each baby is different from one another. While I convince myself that she is all ok, it’s hard to just be as if it is. Sometimes I wished her was more like the other bubs but then I fall back once again to the sort of thinking I should have, ‘She will when the times comes’. It’s really much easier said than done.

But that aside, the other thing that binds them together as sisters is this….

You can’t get any more sisterly than this!