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metaphortunate) wrote2013-03-26 09:33 pm
metaphortunate) wrote2013-03-26 09:33 pm
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The awesome:
He's obsessed with eyeballs. I took him to our small local aquarium this weekend with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laurenhat and he cracked her up all day because every single fish, he had to point out that it had eyes. He has to point out that I have eyes. That he has eyes. If it has eyes, he will let you know about it.
He's getting more communicative - and helpful! - by the day. He can help put things away now when I ask. He is just so goddamned adorable. Yesterday on the bus we were sitting next to a woman who had a middle-schooler and he was looking in my eyes and repeating words back to me and grinning and I saw her succumb to baby fever. Some unsuspecting dude came home last night to a wild-eyed woman announcing "I checked and we can afford another kid. Take off your pants." Junebug, it's not fair!
The not so awesome:
Around food, mostly. In particular, if I'm eating something he doesn't like. Because I get him a plate full of nice things he likes. And then I sit down to eat my breakfast of, say, yogurt and blackberries. Well, obviously he wants to eat what I'm eating. So I put a yogurt-covered blackberry on his plate. Which he stares at as though I had just served him a live cockroach. Then he starts begging for more of my food. Because I am eating with every evidence of enjoyment! Clearly I cannot just be eating that dreck I just put on his plate! Mama is sneaking something delicious and she is not sharing! So then the meltdown. It's very frustrating.
He's obsessed with eyeballs. I took him to our small local aquarium this weekend with
laurenhat and he cracked her up all day because every single fish, he had to point out that it had eyes. He has to point out that I have eyes. That he has eyes. If it has eyes, he will let you know about it.He's getting more communicative - and helpful! - by the day. He can help put things away now when I ask. He is just so goddamned adorable. Yesterday on the bus we were sitting next to a woman who had a middle-schooler and he was looking in my eyes and repeating words back to me and grinning and I saw her succumb to baby fever. Some unsuspecting dude came home last night to a wild-eyed woman announcing "I checked and we can afford another kid. Take off your pants." Junebug, it's not fair!
The not so awesome:
Around food, mostly. In particular, if I'm eating something he doesn't like. Because I get him a plate full of nice things he likes. And then I sit down to eat my breakfast of, say, yogurt and blackberries. Well, obviously he wants to eat what I'm eating. So I put a yogurt-covered blackberry on his plate. Which he stares at as though I had just served him a live cockroach. Then he starts begging for more of my food. Because I am eating with every evidence of enjoyment! Clearly I cannot just be eating that dreck I just put on his plate! Mama is sneaking something delicious and she is not sharing! So then the meltdown. It's very frustrating.
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I also completely relate to the food-related meltdowns. Mine are grown past that, now, although I still get questioned about the things that go on my plate, particularly if they are things the kids readily identify as something they do not personally appreciate. "Well then it's a good thing you're not eating it" does not seem to particularly deter them either - they're not usually satisfied unless I confirm that yes, this is a thing they do not like, and furthermore I must reassure them that they are not going to be made to eat it.
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