A Clothes Thing

In June, Macie discovered her clothes.

She started trying to pick out what she was going to wear.

But then running away before I got them on her.

Because she also loved the stairs.

Then, one day she found all of her clothes.

And pulled all of them out of the drawer.

I found her like this.  

And my first instinct was to think about all of the clothes I was going to fold and store again.

Babies wear a lot of clothes.

But then I saw how happy she was.

So I settled in and watched her try to figure out how to get them on her little body.

I watched her circle them and gather them.

She put them in piles.

She organized them in her own way.

She was in heaven.

And, I realized again in that moment, very much a girl.

With a clothes thing.

And when she was done?

She ran for the stairs.