This morning 3 year old Natalie told me she didn’t suck on her fingers “no more.” Tonight she was drinking strawberry milk from a sippy cup and she called it a baby cup. All the sudden she’s self-conscious about what big girls do and what babies do.
I think she wants to be more grown up, like her big sister Katie, who just started kindergarten and turned five. Some mornings Natalie goes to elementary school with Katie and mommy for breakfast. She likes talking to the big kids. She wants to be in elementary school, too. On the other hand, her teachers tell me she likes the fact that preschool is her school now that she’s not in Katie’s shadow.
The kids have a back and forth relationship with growing up. On the one hand they want to be big, but being a baby is nice. Saying they’re big is fun, but being a baby is fun, too. When do you decide you want to grow up?
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