4 February 2006

These days Saffron usually insists on getting dressed on her own. Often she picks out her outfits too. What surprises me is how she does up and undoes buttons with such dexterity. I'm not sure where or how she learnt it. Each time I watch her get dressed independently it dawns on me what a developmental milestone this is - my little baby doesn't need me to dress her anymore. She can even run up and down the stairs to fetch things on my behalf; switch on and off the lights as necessary; feed herself; and more recently, brush her own teeth AND spit out instead of swallow the toothpaste (any parent will understand why I'm so impressed). Fortunately for me, for the time being she still requires my help to warm her milk, read her stories at bedtime and make sure there's an undisrupted supply of nappies, berries and weetabix. So all's not lost (just yet).