Without Realizing

I was putting the kids to bed the other night and Taylor was very distraught. Her binkie was cracked on the side and obviously didn't want it, nor would I let her have it. She kept asking for her pink one and that moment seemed like as good as any to be done with the things. So I pulled her into my room to have a little pep talk and give her an encouraging speech. She wasn't interested. Very upset. Until...I made her broken binkie start talking, it looked like where the smile is on a goldfish cracker.

 She lit up after that. Smiled and talked back to her binkie saying 'ok' when asked if she could be a big girl. Binkie also informed her that his cousin 'pink one' had to go help other babies fall asleep and since Taylor is a big girl starting to use the toilet and everything she didn't need her friends. She gave him a sweet kiss and threw him away with a pitiful 'bye bye'. Well we ended up talking about it a little bit longer, I was slowly realizing my babies are not so much babies anymore and we ended up downstairs. This was our conversation after she used the toilet before bed...she zips her own jammies and everything sheesh! Also for translating purposes dum=gum, looking back she was quite clear but if you don't speak Taylor she is saying 'me have dum, me ha me ha me have me have dum, piece of dum in your pocket, dum'


And without realizing it, she grew up a little bit more, right before my eyes. I wasn't even planning on it, and she went and did it anyway...sigh