Attachment

Each day with Bailey is a new adventure. Last night, she was crabby. Full on, outright crabby! It was the funniest thing.

I've mentioned our dear, dear neighbor Karen before, right? She's one of the few people who has been around nearly every days since long before Bailey was born. She's a great friend and a wonderful support.

And it goes without saying that Bailey KNOWS Karen and loves her dearly.

BUT...yesterday, Karen dropped by to borrow some sugar (LOL - yes, this really does happen in suburbia!). While over, she wanted to hold Bailey and give her love...which is what ALWAYS happens. But, Bailey just fussed and pouted. No real tears and no real distress. Just this continuous stream of cute little pouts and fusses. She wouldn't stop until she was being held by either me or Kelly. Didn't seem to matter which one of us it was, but it had to be us.

It was SOOO cute!!!!! Honestly, I've never seen anything cuter in my life.

But, it does bring up the question - could Bailey be starting to go through some early attachement stuff?? She doesn't seem to have any problems when we drop her off at daycare. In fact, she's always quite happy and pretty much ignores us when we leave. She loves her daycare. But this is the second time it has happened with people that Bailey knows other than her childcare providers. It's like, if we are around, she doesn't want anyone else to be near her.

I know, at some point, kids start to go through the attachement stuff with their parents and don't want anyone but them. Is it around this time???