So our friend Clint had a birthday and our troop were invited to his house. That means 4 little people all in the same place at the same time. Not for the faint of heart. We call it a baby convention.
When you have an 18 month old, 6 month old, 5 month old, 3 month old and a newborn in the same place, there's a lot of baby swapping, feeding, diaper changing and general madness going on. Car seats, baby bags, blankets, burp cloths and bibs are EVERYWHERE. And surprisingly the non-parent people there still socialise with us and our kindergarten. There was a LOL moment when we saw that Wren-Lee and Sienna were wearing the same dress and had matching dummies for the day.
Anyway, Wren-Lee loves other kids. It's a fairly new fascination and we were keen to see how she'd react to having her buddies around. Because there's only a 4 week age gap, Sienna is the kid Wren-Lee is most likely to react to and she reacted pretty loudly. She tried every kind of yell she had and Sienna responded by staring blankly back at her and then looked at me as if to say,"I don't get this kid. Why is she yelling at me?"
The second attempt went slightly better. We had the girls on a mat and got them to sit facing each other. Sienna grabbed Wren-Lee's feet because she liked the multicolour stripes on her tights while Wren grabbed the bow on Sienna's sunhat. Eventually they were on the tummies and Wren-Lee was overjoyed to see Sienna's blue eyes in front of her. Sienna, however, wasn't too keen on being on her tummy and that game didn't last very long.
Just when we thought we lucked out with miss SJ, a special moment happened. While Natalie and I were standing side by side holding our girls, Sienna reached out and held Wren's hand. Thanks to my and Natalie's squealing at this tiny gesture of friendship, Trev quickly snapped a pic of the girls although Sienna had let go by then.
And then there's Gabriella. As the oldest of the lot, she's had to learn how to deal with all these small kids including her own brand new baby brother. Gabs is super affectionate and loves to hug and kiss all the babies. This particular afternoon, the affection was on a whole other level.
I was sitting on the couch with Wren-Lee seated between my legs. Gabs came running along, gave Wren a hug and hopped onto the couch to sit next to me. She leaned over and I knew she was going to kiss my kiddie.
What started out as a cute little kiss became Gabs sticking out her tongue and licking Wren's face from chin to cheek. It was hilarious and Wren-Lee just sat there totally mystified by what happened!
You just don't get this kind of stuff happening under normal circumstances but, then again, there really is nothing normal about my friends and all our kids.
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