A letter to my suddenly giant child
Dear baby,
February 21st, 2021
As I write this, I'm sitting on my bed, watching you on the baby monitor, waiting for you to fall asleep so I can have an undisturbed shower before a long day at work tomorrow. Some nights you let me leave the room as you drop off, sometimes you don't, tonight was a good one I guess.
We're currently on day 6 (and your 6th bedtime) without a dummy and you've taken it so we'll. A lot of people gave us a lot of different advice about the 'dummy fairy' or leaving your dummies for Santa in exchange for presents but honestly I didn't plan to stop you having the dummy on that day, or any other day, I just got fed up of seeing you with it in your mouth and dribble down your shirt. We went to the bin in the kitchen, dropped it in, and you haven't had one since! Don't get me wrong, you asked for it every ten minutes for the first couple of days, we even caught you standing by the bin with a frown on your face, but we haven't given in and now you've stopped asking!
Naptimes have become a battle though, even though we know you're tired, you scream the house down for 10 minutes before you start to drop off. Luckily we haven't had that kind of fight at bedtime so far, but we already know that bedtimes and nights are a different battle of their own.
I am so proud of how well you've taken it, because you were literally never without one in your mouth before this week. Suddenly, you look huge. You seem taller, and more grown up. You haven't learned any new words this week but the ones you know are already so much clearer.
Also this week, we accepted the offer of a place in the Foundation 1 class/preschool at what we hope will be your future school. In 6 months time, I'll be ironing your uniform on Sunday nights ready to send you off into school. I know you've been at nursery since your first birthday but this seems like a big step!
I can't wait to keep watching you grow.
I love you always, all ways,
Your mama xxx