My first look.
We were driving and my daughter was tired and restless. Since I was in the back seat, I kept giving her toys to play with, hoping to engage her for a few more minutes. Finally, we all decided that we needed to stop engaging her, so that she could fall asleep. We did this knowing that there would be a brief period of crying before she transitioned into sleep. As we suspected, she started crying. I tried to ignore her by looking out the window or twiddling my thumbs. (It is VERY hard to ignore a crying baby!) Finally, I looked up at her and there it was — my first GLARE. I was horrified. My loving, sweet baby girl was looking at me with hate in her eyes. "Steve," I said to my husband, "our daughter just gave me my first mad look." He reached back to give my hand a squeeze and said lovingly, "There will be many more of those." Before long, my daughter was sound asleep. She awoke an hour later with a huge smile on her face and pounced into my arms with a giggle, all anger forgotten. Phew! I survived my first glare!
Labels: mom/daughter conflict
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