Milk

So, tomorrow my baby turns three. This is the first time that I've ever breast-fed a three-year-old because Penny self weaned at 27 months. And today I was thinking about one of the super cute things that he does and I wanted to write it down here so I could remember it.

Whenever I got really sick with pneumonia, and Richard started taking Oliver for bed, we started the process of officially night weaning him after I gotten better. And one of the steps that I took to kind of help him work through that was a book called "Nursies when the sunshine's." And in the book, they explain that it's dark outside, and everybody in the family is going to sleep, and the milk is going to sleep. And when the sunshine's, everybody in the house will wake up, and the milk will wake up. Ever since we read that book back to back for a few days, Oliver asked me every time that he wants milk "is the milk awake?"  He asked me this question first thing in the morning, and he asked me this question when he randomly wants milk in the afternoons. And it's always really cute, and he gives me this special little smile and does this cute little dance.Are used to be when he first started doing this, that he would ask if the milk was awake, and I would say yes, and he would make the scoping sound and hold his stomach and go "oh, I need milk!" It was super cute, and I miss his little enactment of hunger. But now he asked the question with a big smile on his face because he knows that I'm going to say yes, and then he's very very pleased when I do.

On a random sidenote, he has this little book that has a bunch of farm animals in it, and one of the pages shows a bunch of cows being milked, and there's like a little milk levels that move with a lever. He was working the lever and "reading" the book to me when he said "oh look! Almond milk!"