We invited ourselves to my brother’s house for dinner on Saturday night and my adorable not-yet-two-year-old niece was in her high chair, just finishing up her dinner when we arrived. I stood in front of her and we chatted, mostly about how her daddy was going to fix the puppy dog when he gets home (she had dropped one of those bobble-head toys, and broke it’s head off). She seems to get stuck on a particular event and uses it as a conversation starter for the following week. Last week her big conversation starter was “mummy fell in the bath!”. Poor mummy!

She was pushing pieces of pear into her little mouth when she looked me up and down, cocked her head to the side and pointed straight at my belly and said “Baby?”. Whoa. We’ve never mentioned it to her but the perceptive little miss worked it out on her own. I said yes, that it was Auntie Tamtam’s baby. She raised her chin at me and said “Show me the baby, I want to see it”. Umm? My sister-inlaw quickly explained that she just wanted to see my tummy, having been through a similar thing with her little brother (he is now six months old already). I showed her my tummy and she gave it a rub and exclaimed “Baby!!”. Happy with that, she finished her pears and I cleaned her up before bringing her into the lounge room with the adults.

She dug around in her toy box and pulled out a little dolly and brought it to me. “My baby”, she explained. Then she pointed at my tummy again and said “Auntie Tamtam’s baby” then she pointed at her little brother and said “Mummy’s baby”. That kid has it all figured out and isn’t even two yet. Un-freaking-believable. The next part just about killed me; she put the dolly up under her shirt and grinned like a fool before announcing that her tummy was the same as my tummy. Indeed.

I’m not sure how we will explain when Auntie Tamtam’s baby is gone. I hope she just sort of forgets about it…

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