Welcome to the club, baby girl
Stella caught the bug. It was probably inevitable — it’s been going around in our house for some time. You know this bug: the one that renders her silent on the couch, curled up in one position until a limb loses circulation, unable to hear her parents calling her until they come up and remove the book from her hands.
I take a certain proprietary pleasure in this. Sometimes, that kid … she’s funny, she’s whip smart, but I don’t always get her. Lila’s behavior is easier for me to predict; I find Stella somewhat inscrutable. Her reactions to things sometimes take me so much by surprise that I inwardly wonder: Whose kid is this, again? But seeing her lose herself in a book this way? Yeah, she’s mine.
She caught the bug from Ivy & Bean, by the way, which I’m pretty sure was also the germ responsible for Lila’s (ongoing) case, years ago. Just FYI.
