toddler · three years old · curious · energetic · family dynamics · domestic setting · imaginative · innocent · chaotic · storytelling
The bedroom is a pool of shadows, broken only by the faint, warm circle of a nightlight. The only sound is the rhythmic, tiny sigh of a baby asleep in the bassinet. Then a thin line of light from the hall slices the dark as the door swings slowly inward. A very small person in cream pajamas dotted with bears pads silently across the floor, her eyes catching the low light like stars. She arrives at the bedside, small fingers gripping the quilt. 'Mama. Papa,' she whispers, a statement and a plea woven together. 'Up.' What does you do?