It's Opposite Baby

Well, it happened. Thursday night, I put a baby to bed. That baby woke up Friday morning as a full-blown toddler. I would be mourning the loss of Mila's baby status, but I'm too busy chasing her all over the place to really stop and think about it.

Not thinking about it makes it easy to focus on the positive. Toddlers can walk to the car, so it no longer takes me two trips to get all of the stuff in the car each morning. Toddlers can carry their own lunch bags, too, so that's a whole other level of efficiency. Plus, there's fun stuff Mila can do now that she couldn't last week when she refused to walk.

Hello, Kennywood!

Somehow Mila had never ridden a single thing. She who wouldn't walk unassisted wasn't allowed to do much of anything fun, really. But Mila timed her first day as a toddler well, because we long ago had made plans to spend Friday evening at Kennywood.

A week earlier, a trip to Kennywood would have involved one grown-up riding fun rides with Alexis while the other grown-up waited with Mila at the ride exit. Alas, it was a Toddler Day, so we wandered to Kiddieland. Why not, you know?

The why not should have been because Alexis would blow a gasket at the idea of being expected to hang out in Kiddieland. The reality was that Alexis is ridiculously good at this big sister thing because she was all I WILL TAKE MILA ON RIDES! PLEEEEASE!

So, now, let's be confused about something.

That child. THAT child loves to be hung upside-down by her toes. THAT child learned  to jump on a trampoline long before she walked. THAT child has been found on top of the piano more than once. THAT child looooooooooves to be spun, dropped, thrown, flipped, and everything in between.

THAT child hated the rides.

She started out suspicious, but she ended with angry yells.

IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Which just goes to show that Mila is the child who will do the opposite of what you expect at every single opportunity. Like when you expect that she will need help on the slide, but she runs up the stairs like a pro, slides down the slide in a fit of giggles, and then repeats the process over and over and over and over and over and over ....

I should know by now to never be surprised by anything Mila does or doesn't do.

Comments

[Becky]

But she WALKED ON!!! I am still fighting Evan to get on the rides. And now fighting back tears because omg time flies too fast.

[Katie in MA]

Second-child Syndrome strikes again! Good thing second-kiddos are so dang awesome, rides or no. :)