The Woolly Mom

She makes this look so easy. 

                               
I’ve watched this about forty times, thinking that I’ll catch on. All of my shirts still end up as crumpled balls.

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Remember that funny time when you were reading the About This Woolly Mom section of this site, and I said that my baby likes to dance to the Gilmore Girls theme? And then you had a hearty laugh thinking, No baby would ever do that! - why would this woman make up such silly lying lies? Stupid lying mom. Of lies.?

Ha! Finally I can produce evidence. Evidence that clears me as being false in any way about my child’s oddities. But on the other hand, possibly incriminates me for letting my baby watch too much Gilmore Girls, instead of that insipid Elmo. The soulless mothers who deny their children all television will be coming after me with pitchforks any minute now. I’m peeking out the curtains watching for them. But I hear they’re kind of like Dementors - you don’t know they’re around until you feel that icy chill of misery engulf you. And then your soul gets sucked out of your mouth.

I’m going to go hide under my bed with a crucifix and a fake magic wand. We’ll see which one works best. You go ahead and watch this video where my daughter goes into a trance watching some Tivo. Note that the second this video ended, she crawled away to go eat some dog food - she’s just not a big fan of Sally Struthers’s acting style (the nerve!).

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Haha. We took Lily on her first boat ride on her Grandpa’s pontoon boat. On her first ride ’round the lake she stood against the arm rest of the seat, grinning into the wind and sticking her tongue out - which she does whenever there’s a breeze. She likes to lick the wind. What can I say? That’s my baby! Even with the life vest mummifying her, she loved it.

Second trip out onto the lake, we knew it was past her naptime (you could tell my the nervous, strangled look on my face). She quickly grabbed the same armrest as before, did her bouncing dance a few times in excitement….and then before we even made it out into the open lake, her eyes were closed and she was out! Sound asleep - standing up! In less than one minute of the motor starting.

Seriously, she is sound asleep in both of these pics.

She even stayed that way for a good ten minutes, until Dave kind of tipped her over so she slept on her back on his lap the rest of the boat ride. Behold, the magic of being on a boat! The next time she’s fussing and won’t sleep, I’m waking up my father-in-law to start up the boat!

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Well, my baby’s definitely a strange one. I had to post about this latest game of hers during today’s afternoon nap, since this is a lunchtime problem. She’s decided to bite the spoon whenever I feed her lunch - just lunch. Never breakfast or dinner. And when I say she bites it, I mean she clamps down on the rubber-coated spoon and holds on for dear life. She could make Cujo proud. 

This started last week. So at first I decided that maybe she was displeased and bored with her food selection (take back this vomitous dog food, and bring me the good stuff, or I keep your spoon! Chop, chop!), so I mixed it up a bit. And I tried getting creative with singing to her and distracting her in other ways. But we never make it through our entire bowl of veg without her locking down. She eventually lets me have the spoon back after 2-3 minutes. But by then, I’m pulling my hair out by the roots.

Has your kiddo ever tried anything like this? I have a hunch this is all a teething fad (she has her two upper and lower teeth in, with more on the way). Let’s hope that all it is, or I’m going to have to find slipperier spoons to feed her with!

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I had to stop and share what is a very unfortunate turn in my progress teaching Lily how to wave bye-bye. I thought she was getting it. Her little hand would bop up and down and she’d look very proud of herself, like she knew she had figured out something big.

But it didn’t always work. She wouldn’t wave bye-bye to grandma when she left. She’d almost never wave to my husband as he left for work in the morning.

Then today I realized why - my daughter has decided that she will only wave at animals.

She waves bye-bye (or whatever she thinks it means) to the cats in our house, to the pug as he eats, and to the chipmunks running across our deck. She waves bye-bye to the neighbor dogs out the window. She waves bye-bye to the squirrels on our lawn. At least our wildlife feels welcome!

This is all happening because clever me thought that I could help her practice waving hello by going from room to room and greeting all the cats a couple times a day. I had a dream with Doc Brown from Back to the Future in it saying that this would all backfire. Drat! He invented the flux capacitor…I should’ve listened to him!

Um, I’m not really sure how to fix this. I can’t even explain how this happened. So I’ll have to keep you posted to see if she’ll deign to wave to us mere humans anytime soon.

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