My Little Stinker

The kids went to the sitter today as usual. When I went to pick them up, the sitter commented,"she sure does roll around a lot". I didn't think much of it at first because Kayelynn is a wiggler. She really gets around for a baby who hasn't rolled over yet. Then the sitter said "every time I turned around she had rolled off of the blanket". Something clicked in my head and I felt a little panicky. "You don't mean roll over, like she rolled over?!?". I asked a little too desperately. The sitter was giving me a blank stare and I just kept rambling. "I put her on the floor every night. She plays and squirms. She gets so close to rolling over but she just can't quite do it yet.". I watched the babysitter's blank stare turn in to worry and maybe a smidge of fear.

Then I knew for sure. It was true. Kayelynn had rolled over for the first time and I had missed it.

It was kind of hard to really believe. I had never missed one of Trey's milestones when he was a baby. I was working 3 nights a week then and he was with the sitter or grandma or nana all the time. Yet I had somehow always been there to cheer him on as he rolled, sat up, crawled and walked. It was almost like he would wait on me before doing something new. Could it be that this baby had really grown up a little while I was out buying fruit snacks and toilet paper?

The sitter felt bad about letting this new bit of information slip out. "I'd never have said anything to you if I'd thought she hadn't already been rolling", she was saying. I knew I had to suck it up and move on. My sitter was too sweet to let her get a guilty conscience over one little rolling over incident. "She just rolled and rolled all day. She seemed like such a pro I thought she'd been doing it awhile".

Okay that's not helping me.

I reassured the sitter that it was no big deal. I laughed it off and called Kayelynn a stinker. Then I rushed my little gal home. I spread her quilt out on the floor and placed her right in the middle of it. She's still there. Its been about twenty minutes or more. She's just lying there (not rolling!) smiling at me with a twinkle in her eyes that makes me think she really is a stinker!