Her Baby

I wrote this post on 10/7 (as the date above indicates), but one or another things kept it for getting published until now. As of this writing, 10/15, there have been some developments in the Baby Saga.  Stay tuned for updates.  Because I know you have nothing better to do.



This is Sabine's baby.  It's been three weeks now since she could not be without her.  I know where she came from, and it dates back to a project I had to do in school when I was a kid, but I have no idea just how Sabine got a hold of Baby.  Nor do I remember the moment when she must have pulled her from the deep recesses of some drawer.  I do remember the first day Sabine could not be without her and that was a Friday three weeks ago.  I can't think of how it actually happened that we realized Sabine couldn't be without her, but I recall Sabine bringing her to Playschool on the following Monday and I was so nervous that Sabine was going to lose her.  I remember telling people that day that Sabine had been carrying her baby around non-stop since Friday.

Pretty much every day Baby gets lost.  We all enter crisis mode and search for her until she's found.  I think it was the day before I took these pictures that Baby actually got lost in the backyard.  It was then that I realized I needed to take some pictures of her so that we would have something for the milk cartons in case her disappearance ever became more than temporary.  On this day in the backyard (about a week after the relationship began) Sabine was far too busy taking Baby down the slide and tossing her in the air (all the time going "Woohoo, my baby!") to hold her still long enough for me to get a close-up.  I had to hold her for this top picture and Sabine stood at my legs jumping and pawing to get Baby back.

The name Baby is overly repetitive in our house these days.  We already have a 'Baby' and that's an inflatable giraffe that Sabine loves to play with.  So I tried to get her to call this new one Little Baby, but she insists on simply calling her 'My Baby', so then we just refer to it as 'Her Baby'.  We've also got a Baby Honey; Sabine refers to dogs as puppies, so actual puppies have become 'baby puppies'.  I feel like pretty soon everything is our house is going to have some name variation of Baby.