Maternal Instinct

Lucy goes through stages where she loves playing with her baby dolls and right now she is loving feeding, changing diapers, and putting them to sleep. Some times I think she thinks Ellie is just a real life baby doll for her to play with, but no complaints I have loved the extra help. Today in the car I heard her saying to Ellie- "stay awake Ellie, Ellie keep your eyes open and stay awake" (because she knows I don't like for her to fall asleep in the car), she even proceeded to play peek-a-boo with her to keep her from falling asleep.


One night we were all sitting around the table and Ellie was looking at Lucy and mimicing her as she was chewing. Lucy said "say dada Ellie" (something we have been working on a lot) and Ellie said "dadadadada". Looks like we have a great teacher on our hands!


Lucy's favorite place to put her babies to sleep right now is in our bed so any given night when Sean and I are getting ready to bed we often find 3 or 4 babies hiding underneath our covers.


And then there are times when things like this happens...and you realize she is just a 2 year old having fun.