I loved the Ramona books growing up. As an adult, I often thought they should be required reading for every parent. I was always fascinated at how Ramona would do something, and it would make perfect sense to her, but the adults would look at her actions and find them completely inexplicable, and she would get in trouble. Whenever Babykins does something that just seems completely baffling to me, I try to stop and think about how Ramona would have explained it.
Which brings me to our story. The daycare Babykins goes to is split into two sections. All of the 2-year-olds are on the top floor of the building. The 3- to- 5-year-olds are on the bottom floor. Babykins has wanted to move downstairs for ages. As soon as she turned 3, she became very excited because she was finally old enough to go down with the big kids.
Unfortunately, the daycare didn't have room downstairs, so Babykins had to stay upstairs. She was upset, but I thought it was just because her best friend was downstairs and they wanted to play together.
Then, one day, as I was explaining to Babykins once again that she would go downstairs soon, but they just didn't have space down there, yet, she looked at me and said, "But mommy, if I stay upstairs, I might turn 2 again!" The look of distress on her face was heartbreaking. Here, this whole time, she had been worried she'd turn back into a "little girl" if she stayed upstairs too long.
I gave her a big hug and explained that now that she was 3, she would never turn back to 2 again. And I reminded myself to check out a Ramona book or two from the library.
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