The Quiet Baby

I had dinner with my best friend E.E. tonight. She mentioned being a little jealous of Emily playing quietly in her seat. While I also enjoy having a quiet baby, sometimes it's too easy to just let her sleep that extra half hour or watch a movie instead of playing with her and helping her to develop motor skills or social skills. It's easy to read a book to myself while she's just lying there on the bed looking at me instead of reading to her with voices and funny faces.

So yeah, it may look luxurious to see this little angel (for now) be a good girl in a restaurant, but what am I gonna do when I look up one day and she's wearing a miniskirt and black lipstick, yelling at me that I never listen to her because I fell into the habit of not paying attention to her unless she cried?

Just pray that I'll make that extra effort every day for playing and learning instead of checking my email one more time or reading another chapter that could wait. We did it today! We played and practiced pushing up on our tummy so we could learn to crawl later! Emily is holding her rattle and often holds her bottle towards the end of a feeding when the bottle is lighter!