babyness

I wanted a little more nostalgia of holding on to the "babyness" and nothing says "babyness" like Johnson's baby products.

Big Blueberry Eyes 2009

I pulled him to me and clung to him and drank in his babyness like a draught, knowing, in my gut, that someday, I would miss this, crave this, yearn for this like the parched soul yearns for cool water.

Needful Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

I think we tend to cling more to the babyness of our sons.

This Is The Way The World Ends, Not With A Bang, But A Haircut - Her Bad Mother 2010

I want the babyness, even as every day I look at my long-legged, leaping, flying girls and think, “oh, how wonderful; they are growing up!” ciao, rpm

Hello, Goodbye | Her Bad Mother 2009

While part of me is very happy, the other part literally aches for the loss of her babyness.

Needful Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

I tottered and spun from the exhaustion; my breasts bled from his painful nips: still I perservered, determined to preserve this, his babyness, his need for me.

Needful Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

Relish the babyness and ignore the toddler as looooong as you can!

Hey There, Delilah | Her Bad Mother 2009

Is it wrong that I cling to his babyness like an infant to a breast, that, in moments, I must fight the urge to paw and truffle and cling, to bury my nose in the sweet, soft folds of his neck and whisper, you are mine?

Needful Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

The moment that his floppy, fluffy, messy baby locks are shorn, he will lose all of his babyness and turn immediately into the toddler that I know he is but am resisting acknowledging.

Hey There, Delilah | Her Bad Mother 2009

But I am far less sure about the loss of Her as a suckling, cuddling ball of tiny babyness.

Needful Things | Her Bad Mother 2009