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While I avidly pursue situations to involve Buttercup in socially, I’m beginning to take a step back.  When the play dates and activities began to tally over three a day, it’s time to take it down a notch.  As my Dad says, you’ve got to pick and choose, you can’t do everything.

Independent play is very important for Buttercup.  While she sparkles in social settings, she also revels in her quiet imaginary play.  Lately, I’m more and more impressed with how capable of “pretend” she can be.  Whether it’s her dollhouse or her favorite set of Bitty Twins from American Girl, she is gifted at creating whole worlds out of thin air.  It’s one of the abilities of being a child I think I miss the most.

I was sitting in my bedroom listening to her play in the nursery, and she was just perfectly role playing the little family of bears she has.  There’s a mother, two babies, and a daddy bear.  Anyway, she was speaking for the baby girl bear, and she said, “Mommy, I miss you too much!”  I could have cried.  My dad always says that, “I love you too much!”  So, I’m assuming she picked it up from him.  The things she says always makes me stop and try to identify who she’s mimicking.  The other day, she said, “Come hither!”  I couldn’t believe it.  Then, I realized it’s something I say when I’m being playful.

I remember the first time I heard my voice on a tape recorder.  I was shocked.  Is that really what I sound like, I remember thinking.  Well, with Buttercup, it’s the same thing.  She’s a little tape recorder, playing me back to me.

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