Cute

Of course I am biased.  Bun Bun is really cute... those big brown eyes, little button nose, rose petal lips, and oh! that little dimple.  These are the typical features of a cartoon character.  She has gotten by quite a lot in her short little life on being cute.  Lately, I've been putting her hair up in pig tails.  CUTE!

Is she ever not cute?  Oh yeah!  When she throws temper tantrums or when she just flat out refuses to do what she's told, she can get quite ugly.  She's still little and can get away with being ugly.  After all, she's more or less still a baby and will act like one.  Most people expect that and will tolerate it.  And, like I said, she can and has get away with a lot just by being a typical toddler and looking cute.

Now that she's four, growing taller and not so much a baby anymore, it hit me the other day that there will come a day when being cute won't do her much good.  There will be a day when she's not so cute anymore.  It won't be cute when she's 10 or 12 and throws a temper tantrum.  It won't be cute when she's 15 and refuses to be consoled because she didn't get what she wanted.

Better start putting my foot down and train her right.

Eating a whole meal all by herself.  She loves rice.

Birthday Girl

Another year came and went, for Bun Bun.  It's hard to believe my little peanut is 4 years old.  I can still remember the smell of the NICU where she stayed for 3.5 weeks after being born.  Sigh...

Bun Bun had two wonderful birthday celebrations.  She celebrated with a big milestone - she ate a whole meal all by herself.  Being an only child and one with special needs, we do EVERYTHING for her.  We dress her.  We feed her.  We still carry her from place to place (mostly because we don't want her going bare footed though).  I brush and floss her teeth.  We wash her hands (well, otherwise she wouldn't do it herself).  I bathe her, wash her hair.  So, for her to have eaten an entire meal all by herself was a big deal.  After all, she's been doing it at school.

For 4th of July holiday weekend, we flew down to NC and visited Grammy and Pop-pop.  They had just moved down recently.  We also had a nice visit with Bun Bun's aunts, meeting one for the first time.  Unlike me, Bun Bun did very well on the plane.  She was entertained on the ride down with her magna-doodle pad and movies on the iPad.  On the way home, she slept for a little bit.  The plane ride was about 75 minutes each way.  Not a bad trip to test out how she'd respond to changes in altitude and that weird take-off and landing sensation.

Just another ride to go some where fun.

Happy birthday to me!