Abby knows the difference between boys and girls, theoretically. She knows Mommy’s have babies, she knows Daddy’s don’t. She knows Mommy is a girl and Abby is a girl and Daddy is a boy. She also knows Mommy nurses the baby.
Let’s follow the logic here.
Mommy is a girl and Mommy nurses The Peep
Abby is a girl
Therefore
Abby nurses her Baby.
Today, one of the (million) times that Emma was nursing, Abby appeared from her bedroom with her “baby Emma”, a washcloth to catch the burps, and her nightgown hiked to her chin.
She just needs a little milk
Abby then sat patiently, staring vacantly out the window, “nursing” her little cotton doll, held firmly to her little chest. A few short minutes later she switched sides and this, then, is the REALLY funny part. You may or may not realize how detail oriented Abby is but consider this, between switching sides she reached beneath her nightgown from above and fumbled around a little bit with her fingers at her chest obviously adjusting something in preparation.
If you are watching her do this you can easily see that she is imitating The Mommy hooking and unhooking her nursing bra. When questioned although, Abby doesn’t quite understand the point.
An unconfirmed possibility is that she thinks she is somehow turning the milk on or off.
Here you can observe her burping her “baby Emma”, (complete with spit-up cloth) because
You have to get the burps out.
blief 
Just want to get on your list! [actually this is Grumpy setting DPY’s laptop up for e-mail and the only good internet site I know of!!]
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Detail oriented!? Indeed!
You just cannot realize how much a young child absorbs until you, as parents, observe them. Or how much different one child is from his or her sibling.
I always thought my brothers and sisters were just like me in everything except looks [They were always much better looking than me]. I was the middle child — one brother older and one younger; one sister older and one younger.
So when my second child was born — another boy — I was absolutely shocked when his personality turned out to be so opposite from his brother. When my first daughter was born, I expected her to be somewhat different than the boys. But she was even different-er than that! Then when her little sister came along she was even different from the older three!! How can you describe four positively opposite personalities!! You can’t, until you realize that each child is an individual.
A very interesting individual at that!
It follows, then, that raising a child [note, I said “a child”] is not done by some “cookbook” approach that one reads in a text book. Instead, each child is a 21 year experimental project handed to you by God.
The success you have is determined by how seriously you take your “assignment”. If you do your best, there is no such thing as a failing grade and you can reflect favorably on your efforts. If you do poorly and succeed anyway, you still get a passing grade but you may have regrets that you didn’t try harder. If you don’t even try — well, it is unfortunate for the child as well as the parent.
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