As a writer, I don't take photos of my kids like normal moms. No . . . I tend to take a picture and then think "What does it SAY?" This top one, to me, says, "Yes, I am cute and I know it."
While this one says, "HEY LADY, I told you ONE picture, not two!" [He is camera shy.]
But this last one is classic Demon Baby, "Come near me with that camera and I'll knock you out with my shovel and bury you until the tide comes in."**********************
True story . . . I think it would not be normal if I didn't occasionally wonder . . . "Am I doing ANYTHING right with this kid?" After all, this weekend alone, he painted my bathroom with blue toothpaste, found a hole in the family room couch and pulled ALL the stuffing out of it to make "snowballs" with it, broke one glass candleholder (this is what I get for not having a house made entirely of rubber with him), and tried to freak me out by pretending to swallow a handful of marbles. Ha, ha. Yeah, he keeps me laughing all right. If he does THAT at age 4, I wonder what he will pretend to do at age 12. I shudder.
Anyway, this weekend, he took a bath (but didn't wash his hair, which is something I only do once a week since it involves my wrestling him like a WWF fighter). As I toweled him off, we went and sat in the big chair in my bedroom and I wrapped him up and we snuggled for a while. As we did, I kept putting my fingers through his wet hair, which caused it to spike straight up--and I said, "You look really cute with your hair spiked."
"STOP!" he shrieked.
"What?"
Suddenly there was a torrent of tears.
"What is the matter, Demon Baby? You don't like your hair spiked?" I started flattening it down.
"I don't want you to spike my hair."
"How come?"
"Because then I won't look just the way I am. And you always say you love me JUST the way I am."
After I brushed away a stray tear, I thought, "All right, if that's the message he's getting . . . I must be doing something right."
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12 comments:
Aww. That's so sweet that despite the endless ways he finds to torment you, your approval is still the most important thing to him.
Melanie:
I know. Makes me feel like less than an abject failure as a mother. LOL!
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I teared up reading that. Kids really can say the sweetest things.
He really is a sweet little demon. It makes you wonder whether Satan was a mommy's boy. He could have been. There's no good documentation.
Awww, that is fantastic! You've got him programmed young. Hopefully no one will ever hold a candle to the installation. (Good god. I'm having trouble with words today. This is EXACTLY how my writing has been today. You know what I mean, right?)
Awwww!!
Kids seem to sense when you have had it, and then they go and say the sweetest things and make you forget why you were mad.
Conley:
I know. Makes you forget the monster moments.
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Robin:
LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!!
Spy:
That's always my greatest wish, that they retain the innate sense that they are loved.
E
Nessa:
:-)
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Cheryl:
It's called self-preservation. LOL!
E
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