avril + bea
The thing about Bea is that, in so many ways, she’s just like other little girls. Princesses, make-up, all of these clichés. She really loves baking. She’s quite the cook, actually. All these stereotypically girly things that, in another situation, we might try to steer her away from—but she’s very determined when she sets her mind on something.
As her parents, if what we want to do doesn’t coincide with her own priorities, Bea will spend a bit of time thinking about whether she’ll acquiesce to our needs or go full-throttle for her own business. She’s recently worked out the key to mollifying us, though. She’ll look at us and, in this very proper voice, say, “Oh, I’m so sorry about that.” And then she’ll keep doing what she was doing! It’s like, “I said sorry, so we can all move on now. Stop holding on to the past, Mum and Dad.”
It’s in her language where you really see the difference. Bea still doesn’t speak clearly, and her vocabulary is limited. You see these other six-year-olds and they’re quite capable of expressing themselves and what they want, and it
