This? Is Jasper. Throwing a fit.

Which probably doesn’t seem all that extraordinary, in itself. Little boys and girls throw fits and hurl their little bodies to the ground and kick and scream. But there’s the rub: little boys and girls do this. Not babies. Babies just throw their heads back and wail. Sometimes, they’ll reach out with their little arms to be comforted. But they generally don’t fling their whole physical selves into a temper tantrum. That’s the work of the toddler.

I think that Jasper is maybe a toddler. Which is to say, not a baby. No longer a baby. No longer a baby.

I think that my heart just cracked a little along the edges. Okay, maybe it just cracked a lot. Right through the middle.

Oy.