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Sitting in the bath, Nidhi is singing nativity songs that she has learnt at school. She adapts the words to our baby
A baby is going to be born
A baby is going to be born
In June, in June (original words 'Tonight Tonight')
In this big house (orig. 'In the bright starlight')
A baby is going to be born
A cot (stable) is where it will be
A cot (stable) is where it will be
In June, in June (original words 'Tonight Tonight')
In this big house (orig. 'In the bright starlight')
A cot (stable) is where it will be
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Using the toilet one day, she calls out to me "Mummy do we have a small potty?"
Me: Yes, somewhere in the loft I think, an old one you used
4yo: You have to get it out for the baby, because the baby cannot sit on the big potty, it will fall in.
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4yo: Will you get a cot for the baby?
Me: What do you think, should we get one?
4yo: Yes, and I will sleep in the same room as the cot. So if the baby wakes at night, I can tell you.
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4yo: We'll get a cot and the baby can sleep in it till he or she is 2 yrs old. Then we can get a bed for it. And the baby can sleep in it till it is dead.
Me: (a little shocked) Yes, but before that the baby might grow up and move to its own house and bed.
4yo: Yes, unless it has an accident and dies.
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WE're doing the Advent Calendar and are talking about the passage for the day (Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac). I tell Nidhi about how Isaac must have been so close to Abraham's heart because he was born after a long wait of many many years. And how things are more dear to us when we have waited a long time for them.
She says "Just like I waited five years for a baby brother or sister"
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Dec 10, 2011
Today Nidhi wonders if the baby inside thinks it is going to be the first baby because it doesn't know it has a big sister.
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Dec 15, 2011
We are playing and I pat Nidhi on the back. She complains that I hurt her when I did that, so I rub her back. I feel her shoulder blade and tell her how I could feel this bone when she was in my tummy. She asks me where I could feel it and I point to the part of my tummy. She says then that her back must have been facing my tummy.
She asks if I could feel her head. I said yes, because she used to keep moving about. She says, it isn't moving, because babies cant move on their own, it must have been floating around. And I say yes.
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Dec 16, 2011
4yo: Can we buy bunk beds for the baby and me when the baby is older?
Me: Yes, sure. Will you like bunk beds?
4yo: Yes, and we can ask the baby which bed he or she likes to sleep on - the higher one or the lower one.
Me: Which one would you like? You can choose what you like.
4yo: No, we'll ask the baby because it is younger.
3 comments:
I am reading this one for the first time and I am surprised at Nidhi's maturity at her age. She seems so considerate to her younger one even before it was born.
I am reading this one for the first time and I am surprised at Nidhi's maturity at her age. She seems so considerate to her younger one even before he was born.
Yeah, I had drafted this early on, but did not post it as I hadn't shared the news with friends until later.
I know what you mean about the maturity, although lately I wonder where it has disappeared!?
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