So I thought I would start the day out with a short story about our daughter. It has been noted (MANY times) that all her pictures seem to be with her mouth open. This is NOT an exaggeration!! She really has it open most of the day. Now, generally its open for a reason: eating, talking, drooling...and chewing. I discovered yesterday that the open mouth is also a trap to draw in prey...very much like a Venus flytrap, angle fish, or still spider.
Phoebe was playing on her rug, chatting away...looking very cute, very mischievous. I leaned over her to talk and play back....when out of nowhere two chubby (and sticky!) hands reached up and grabbed (not gently) the sides of my face...catching hair and ears in the process! She then levered herself up, by pulling on my face, to a sitting position...and promptly clamped her open, drooly mouth on my nose. Yuck and ouch.
She wouldn't let go...it was like a Nature show, the more I struggled to retrieve myself, the harder she hung on! Finally, I was able to get a finger under her arm and tickle! That released the beast, and she was again a sweet, cooing baby girl.
Now, I don't know WHAT the moral of this tale is...I know that there IS one, and I know that I am going to be much more careful in keeping this trauma from occuring again. My face still hurts.
It was only a matter of time before she started mistaking people for food. =)
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