It’s incredible how a teeny person can make a grown man melt, encourage people to cross oceans and elicit a smile from everyone who crosses her path (though she herself is oblivious to this power)!
Plunging head-first into this world (literally) with one arm out a la super girl, my little princess has single-handedly brought our families together, put a permanent smile on my Mother’s face & showed her Daddy and me what true love really is.
From a stroll around Tesco to a Bat Mitzvah bash, baby Hine has proven herself the centre of attention (I knew she got something from me…) as people’s faces light up as she passes by in sling or stroller, fight over who gets to cuddle her (aside from just hubby and I) and can’t stop themselves from staring at her as she gazes back with enormous blue eyes (those she got from her Dad)!
Guests watch entranced as she… sleeps in her pram, friends are bewitched by her… playmat activities and her grandmother is enraptured by… her smile.
My days of course centre around her waking, feeding, changing and dressing needs and I have never been happier. Selecting her outfits is far more appealing than picking out my own, considering my wardrobe choices are dictated by anything that goes with breast feeding, and considering whatever I wear will inevitably end up with sick, milk, poo or a mess of my own making plastered across it, it hardly matters what I dress in. Yesterday morning for example, I arrived at synagogue (for my Godmother’s daughter’s bat mitzvah) to discover a leaked patch of breast milk on my French Connection top and then at the Kiddish I inadvertently squirted donut jam all over myself (and I wasn’t even holding my baby!)
Every thought turns to our daughter and every situation leads to questions about her role in them… A bat mitzvah (rite of passage for 12-13 year old Jewish girls) gets us thinking about where we will hold her party, a headline about gap year students makes us worry about the time when she will venture into the world on her own and a white dress in a shop window makes us realise that every moment counts as one day she will take steps to make a life of her own.
This wonderful, beautiful, special teeny person is the centre of our world, the centre of our happiness and of course, the centre of attention!!
The Word According to Lil Miss Fashionista 