Child's Play

Dear Anonymous Reader,

I am an Auntie to a 5 1/2 month old baby girl. She is the most adorable child on the planet! M is the first baby in my immediate family and we are all just beside ourselves with joy whenever she's in the room. I mean, I've been around babies and my friend's babies, continuously, for the past 10 years, but for some reason M's crying is closer to cute than annoying. Her dirty diapers are no big deal (even when they are total blowouts), and her smile when she recognizes my face literally makes my heart swell up and skip a little beat. I can't imagine how her mom, my sister, feels. It's incredible.

Yesterday, my sister sent a video to the fam of M in her first playtime with her dad. They were laying on their bed, on their tummies with their heads to the side and their faces looking at each other. M would lift her head and shoulders up, dad would lift his head up and say "Oop!" with a smile, then she would put her head back down on the bed and he would put his head back down again. Then M started the game over again...M's head up, dad's head up "Oop!", M's head down, dad's head down. They did this on the video about 10 times. That's the first game I've seen her play. I was pretty incredible!

Usually, M "playing" is banging a baby spoon around or rolling back and forth from tummy to back grabbing at teething toys and cooing. That is adorable, of course, but this video was WAAAAY better! She knew what she was doing and she knew what her dad was doing. They were both all smiles and I can't thank my sister enough for getting the video and sharing it with everyone.

I LOVED IT! I think we're soon in for many games of Peek-a-Boo and many laughs and smiles.

Never to old to play, A.R.!
XO
Kel