The challenge with this blog will be to provide as much fun information about Natalie as about Lukas. Natalie's info is therapy, doctor visits, which can take a lot of space to explain. Lukas is talking and saying crazy stuff, which is much more fun to talk about, but not as prayer-worthy.
Anyway, here's a fun report for Natalie. Tom mentioned it, and it happened to me too: when we hold Natalie, she tries to put her pacifier in our mouth. I know she loves the pacy, but no thank you!
She especially loves to chew on the velcro of the pacifier clip that keeps it attached to her clothes/bib. One time we were at the store and someone I didn't know came over and was talking to the kids (in the stroller). I watched her reach down and take the little velcro piece to put the pacy into Natalie's mouth. I immediately asked her to not touch and she said "I was just trying to put it in her mouth." I didn't think our relationship would last long enough to explain that the piece that she touched is the exact piece that Natalie spends hours a day chewing on...sometimes more time than the pacy itself! I've gotten more active on asking strangers to not touch her. She grins at them and they want to touch her hands. Why don't people touch babies' feet, instead of hands...it's a little harder to put the feet in the mouth, but the hands go right in the mouth, along with the germs! Ok, I'll stop ranting now.
2 comments:
I guess I am less concerned about germs than you are... I'll happily share a spoon with our girls (I'll admit, that took me a while) and by now I'll even allow them to put their pacifiers in my mouth (well, most of the time - as long as it "looks clean").
Interesting that you mention touching the feet. In China, that's the only part of someone else's baby that you would touch. Never the hands or the face. So our girls were freaked out at first when strangers would try to get too close to their face or their hands.
I will share items with Natalie, if I am not sick, but I don't want strangers sharing their germs. She had pneumonia last year from a cold, and I don't want whatever contagion they are carrying to get passed to Natalie.
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