JieJie has been noticing pregnant women these days and possibly asking people with big tummies if they are pregnant. When she told me about her most recent discovery, that her music teacher is expecting, she made it clear that she found it hard to believe that she was ever a tiny baby in someone's tummy.
She has known for a while that I am not her tummy mommy, but rather her "take care of you forever" mommy, but it all seemed to come together for her last night after several very emotional days of playing "new baby" while she was home sick with a fever.
Last night she decided to write a letter. She dictated it to me.:
Dear Tummy Lady,
What is your name?
Then she took the paper and wrote on her own: I (heart) you, Clare, 4, then had me add "almost 5."
She decorated it with hearts and added a drawing of herself as a baby in a crib in the "baby house." I told her we would put it away in her box of China things and someday perhaps we could take it to China.
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