Warming Up

The weather is starting to get hotter, and I've shifted completely over to tank tops and shorts. I've put away most of Eva's winter clothes, but kept a couple outfits on hand for an occasional chilly morning or evening. I'm always hotter than everyone else when I'm pregnant, which makes it tricky to dress Eva because I don't want to assume she’s as warm as I am. Lately she's been in shorts, which exposed a couple bug bites on her left leg that hadn't healed yet. I had taken her to the doctor because I wasn't sure what they were, but he assured me it was probably just a flea that got her while she was playing outside. Spring is bug season, after all. Since her pants weren't covering the bumps anymore, she started picking at them until they bled. Now I have to cover them with colorful band-aids and tell her not to touch her "stickers". She loves playing with stickers. She's also gotten attached to balloons, thanks to our local grocery store. Some of their staff started giving balloons to children at check-out, and now they've created a monster. Every time Eva goes through the line now, she starts looking around and asking for a "boon". Today I kept telling her not to take it off her wrist, but she loosened the loop and took it off anyway. She laughed as it floated up, not realizing she was going to lose it. Then she started asking "where go?" and wanting it back. I told her the balloon went bye-bye because she didn't obey Mommy, and she'd have to wait until next time. It wasn't until I started backing out of the parking lot that she finally realized I wasn't getting her balloon back, and then she got really upset. Oh, well. That's how you learn.