{"id":2446,"date":"2015-09-08T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2015-09-08T22:27:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:27:57","slug":"in-the-space-of-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/in-the-space-of-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Space of Five Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zara is so very busy right now. \u00a0Her attention span is gradually lengthening by seconds, but it still feels like a blip before she moves on to the next thing. \u00a0Just in the last few weeks she’s started playing pretend play and it’s so much fun to watch! \u00a0She feeds her baby cheerios before eating them herself, brushes her hair, rocks her, and then dumps her unceremoniously over the crib rail for a nap before coming out to find me with many gestures and frantic “be be, be be, be be’s” until I figure out she needs her baby from the crib.<\/p>\n

This favorite “be be” was a yard sale find I picked up years ago. \u00a0Zara completely ignored it until I replaced it’s tattered clothes with this little outfit I sewed from scraps of her own. \u00a0She suddenly wanted to carry it around for a few weeks. \u00a0But as the summer progressed, the doll was often left behind. \u00a0I bought her a new doll and stroller, just in time for school to start in hopes that it would help her transition. \u00a0She had no patience for the box or the checkout line and we had to get the baby out as soon as we got to the van. \u00a0For two days, she played with almost nothing but the new baby. \u00a0Then suddenly, it got dropped into the toy box and she won’t touch it. \u00a0But, the old baby is suddenly just fabulous again. \u00a0She plays and plays with it and even wants to sleep with it.<\/p>\n

One day after she woke from her nap, I gave her the baby and followed her with my camera for a few minutes. \u00a0Seriously, probably five. \u00a0It is completely possible to have a million facial expressions (all positively adorable to your mom), pretend to blow your nose, pretend to bathe your baby with the same tissue, and then trot to the bedroom. \u00a0There you will laboriously crawl onto the rocking chair then figure out you need baby so you get back off and then find it impossible to get on. \u00a0So you crawl back on but don’t have baby at which point Mom will hand you the baby. \u00a0But then in 3.2 seconds you’ll throw the baby on the floor and start the process over. \u00a0After one minute and 45 seconds it’s time to throw the baby in the crib. \u00a0After all, her hair have been brushed, she’s been rocked and you just remembered there are books to read.<\/p>\n

Oh, Zara.<\/p>\n

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(I need a brush for her hair. Let me go get one.)\"doll<\/a><\/p>\n

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( I really think you just need a nap.)\"doll<\/a><\/p>\n

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(I guess I’ll just play with the brush. \u00a0No. Wait. \u00a0I need my baby back.)\"doll<\/a><\/p>\n

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