Classic Meera

Meera is on the mend, the antibiotics have done their job, and she’s starting to act like herself again. (She also has an appointment with an ENT coming up soon… I think we’re on our way to ear tubes.) For the past week she has been so sick. Deep in the thick of it, Meera just wasn’t herself (of course). She was whiney, clingy, and pathetically needy. Every mother that has ever lived knows what I’m talking about: the sick toddler. It is a rare species for sure. But today Meera really started to go back to being more like herself. Silly, playful, independent, adoring of her brothers’ attention (not just mine), and incredibly giving of herself. Numerous times throughout the day, just out of nowhere, she stopped everything to kiss each of us and tell us that she loved us. That’s classic Meera. She also needed to be dressed up all day long— the more tiaras and necklaces and bags and whole-entire-outfit-changes the better. That’s classic Meera. And she demanded that her brothers include her in their play, made them hold her hand when they were out and about, and required them to tell her what a good job she did whenever she used her spoon correctly eating macaroni and cheese tonight. That’s classic Meera. This one – this Meera Grace of ours – is really something special. I don’t know how we got so lucky with her, but we did.