Own Little World

At what age do kids realize the universe doesn’t revolve around them? Peri lives in her own little world. She thinks every kid she sees under age 2 is a baby. Often they are her same age, but she insists on calling them baby. She also uses doll and baby interchangeably, so the entire time we were with cousin Nolen, she called him “Doll Doll”. Peri and Nolen are seven months apart, so we thought they’d be great friends. I still think they will be someday, but Peri wasn’t very interested in him at his birthday party. Every time he touched her she just grunted. One day she came downstairs to find him awake and waved at him while happily saying “Night night!” As if to say “time for you to go to bed so I can get all the attention and play with your toys”. Oh Peri…

And Nick. He will sit on the couch in the mornings and give orders “I’m cold. I’m hungry. Where’s my breakfast? Can you turn on the TV?” while I run around like his maid. I usually reply with a “what do you say” to which the reply is “please”. But I think we might have a bigger problem than manners here!