It seems that every day or so something so sweet, cute, funny, touching or all of the above happens with my darling Lydia. A moment that I want to linger forever right at the forefront of my memory, making my days lighter and sweeter. But as my days fill with these little memories and the inevitable hum drum of the day to day, these memories sometimes slip. So, here are a few silly thoughts that I want to remember years from now and have a laugh to myself, or with my beautiful daughter:

For the fast few days Lydia has been lovingly carrying around a tampon (clean, of course). I guess it is a perfect size for her little hand. I keep taking it away, and even threw it in a trash bin, but she somehow found it, and it keeps turning up all over the house.

Steph, Lydia and I were skyping with my brother the other day. Lydia was watching us chatting away, and I guess she wanted to be part of it. So she stepped up front and centre and starting going prprprpprprprprpr, kind of like she was making a farting sound. Very determined and in a very back and forth chatty way with her Uncle Stephen. Very cute.

In the last week she has been practicing oh so very often to say ‘papa’. She can’t make an actual audible sound yet. But she pinches her lips very tightly toghether and while inhaling makes a silent ‘pa’ ‘pa’ ‘pa’. She looks very proud of herself.

We have been working on baby signing. She has finally mastered milk (opening and closing a fist). But in her little mind, and very understandably, she thinks that milk and mommy are the same thing. So she often looks over at me and opens and closes her fists vigourously while saying ‘MAMAMAMA’. Sometimes she does it while staring greedily at my breasts. It kind of looks like she wants to milk me like a cow.

Her love affair with my nipples continues, much to mama’s chagrin. Often during story time before bed she will listen peacefully to a story while one hand is under my shirt holding very securely onto my nipple. I try to get her to stop (it actually drives me bonkers), but she will hear nothing of it.

This is not so funny, but very sweet and very Lydia. Lydia is unabashedly social. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere we go she makes a million friends. The bus is a favorite. But the metro, grocery lines, corners. Even while I’m walking.  If we pass someone she will lean her body out of the baby carrier so she can catch the person’s eyes and inevitably make them smile. Once she gets a smile, her whole face lights up, which inevitably makes the person laugh. Which gets an even better reaction. Lydia reaches her hand out of the baby carrier as if to say ‘touch me!’. Once she rubbed a man’s big beer belly sitting next to us on a bus. He loved it. Today we spent an hour waiting at a government office to replace my lost drivers license. Not only was Lydia a good girl, she loved it. She left with dozens of new friends. Lydia teaches me the world is a friendly place if you just reach out.

So, I think that is a respectable dose of Lydia moments for a Tuesday night.

Sweet dreams.

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