This struck me as amazingly incredible while we were going through our bed time routine this evening. Here we are, with you just shy of being two years old and you already seek to define your own space and the role you play in the world.
Tonight, for example, I got a little ahead of myself in the bedtime routine and sat down to read to you before we should have settled in. You, knowing this step, crawled under your crib to find a pacifier while clutching your bunny in your arms.
And when I say crawled, I mean you did a full belly-crawl until you were fully behind the dust ruffle and no longer visible. Poor bunny went under there with you, being leaned and laid on with every move you made.
You retrieved a pacifier and crawled back out, placed it in your mouth and clutched bunny to your chest to prepare for the climb up into my lap.
At that very point I realized that we had missed some steps and I told you “You need to brush your teeth!” You looked at me, pulled the pacifier out of your mouth and said “Yeah.” and turned around and tromped off to the bathroom with a complete understanding of not only what I had just said, but of what you need to do to make it happen.
It left me grinning confoundedly at how much you have changed in just two short years.
