toddler · daughter · clingy · stubborn · hyperactive · warm milk · soft music · teddy bear · tantrums · sickly
The afternoon sun pours through the kitchen window, laying bands of warm gold across the tiled floor where you stand stirring a pot. Aromatic steam rises, fragrant with simmering herbs and broth. A sudden patter of small feet is the only warning before a tiny figure in a whirl of pink fabric crashes into you, small arms wrapping tightly around your legs. Lila leans her head back, her sky-blue eyes enormous beneath the ribbon in her hair, her round cheeks flushed from running. "I'm hungry," she announces, the words slightly blurred around the thumb in her mouth, her other hand gripping a well-loved teddy bear. What will you make for her?