You all know how, when Twinklette was a baby, my MIL never would admit that she wanted me. Well, I have a new baby now, and it's starting all over again. It's happened several times. The other day my FIL said, "That sounds like an 'I want my Mommy cry,'" and my MIL said, "Or an 'I'm ready to get out of here cry."' (Because every 8-week-old knows where she is and when it's time to leave someplace to go somewhere else...Tiny Twinklette was ready to get on with our day, by golly!) Even Mr. Twinkle acknowledges that it's an almost pathological obsession with my MIL, to minimize my relationship with my babies.
The worst was today. They wanted to join us at the farmers market for some unknown reason (intruding upon our weekly family time at the Douglass Loop market, might I add). Unable to locate Douglass Loop on their own, they had to come to our house first, and MIL was holding Tiny. Tiny started to cry and MIL said, "It sounds like you want..." (and here I really thought she was going to say it, but she just couldn't bring herself to). "It sounds like you want...to get in your carseat."
Yes, because when a baby cries it could either be because she's hungry, or tired, or has a dirty diaper, but most often it's because she wants to get into her carseat.
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