One Perfect Moment {Story Time}

One Perfect Moment is all about those moments, big or small, that make you wish they'd last forever. Those moments you want to stop in time, when everything feels perfect, even for just a split-second. Snapshots of the mind. Moments to treasure forever. 

I was sitting at the computer when she bought the book over to me. She showed me the picture "Look, Mummy, look!", she exclaimed. It was a Dr. Seuss book. We haven't read a lot of Dr. Seuss, despite having many of his books. Before now she didn't quite have the attention span. Today was different.

I got up from the computer and we went in to her room and sat on the floor together. I opened up the book, There's a Wocket in my Pocket, and began to read. She was enthralled with the story. She laughed. She pointed to the pictures. She told me how the boy was feeling on each page, based on the expressions on his face.

When we were done with that story she grabbed another Dr. Seuss book, The Cat in the Hat. She sat between my legs and we started to read. As I opened the book I realised that I was having to look around her head to see the pages of the books. She's gotten so tall that I can't rest my chin on the top of her head anymore.

In that moment I almost cried. My baby girl is not a baby anymore. She's grown so fast. As I sat there and read to her, my mind couldn't help but be flooded with the memories of book readings past. From a mere few days old, I've read to her. Almost every day of her life I've read to her. She loves it. I love it. Once she was on the move, story time was the only time she would sit still.

Story time is our time. It's when everything else in the world stops, and it's just me, Punky, the words and the rhymes.

Zee isn't so interested in sitting and being read to. It probably has something to do with the fact that I didn't have as much time to dedicate to it in her early days, like I did with Punky. Punky had me all to herself. Baby Zee had to share me with a rambunctious and demanding toddler.

Don't get me wrong, Zee loves books. I often walk past Punky's bedroom to find her sitting on the floor, surrounded by all the books she's pulled off the shelves. Slowly turning the pages and examining the pictures on each one. But she doesn't like me to read to her, because she wants to turn the pages at her own pace, regardless of whether or not I've had a chance to read any of the words written on them.

I know very soon though that she will want to hear the words. But for now, she's content to look at the pictures, and I'm sure make up the story in her own mind. I look forward to the day when she sits between my legs like Punky. Listens intently to the words I read her, exclaims over the pictures and turns the pages with pride.

For now, I read with Punky as much as I can. I live for those moments when it's just me and my big girl, sharing a story. Nurturing her love of books and reading. And while she sits there, engrossed in the words and the pictures, I look around her head and try to hold back the tears that threaten to overflow. I know that too soon she will be reading those words by herself, and she won't fit between my legs anymore.

These moments, our story time moments, are the very definition of bittersweet perfection.

Do you read with your babies? Do you have those bittersweet moments too?

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