Someone’s missing…

Pearl is having another sleepover with her Nana and Poppa.

Yesterday, having dropped her off, I met Fainjin and Babess and their Dad and we all came home together.  Fainjin didn’t seem to realise that that meant that Pearl was somewhere else, and as soon as we got home, he went running into the lounge calling her name, excited at the thought of seeing her.  It was so sweet!  And then he stopped dead with a puzzled look on his face and asked where she was.  “At Nana and Poppa’s,” I said.  “Poppa!” echoed Babess hopefully.  “Oh,” said Fainjin.

At bed-time the same thing happened when he looked for her to say goodnight.

And this morning he went to call her for breakfast, and a bit later to come and play with him.  He’d stop, and look a little bereft, as he remembered she wasn’t there.

I don’t think she realises for a minute how important she is to him.