The First Installment of "Children Make Life Weird In Unanticipated Ways"

[kiya]

So last night KJ slept through, largely I think because my hypervigilance went to eleven and any sign of distress (or at least consciousness) led to me rocking her back to sleep. Obviously, come morning, I was not so much with the capable of dealing with anything.

Fortunately, artan_eter doesn't have to leave for his internship until the afternoon, so I asked him to look after her for the morning so I could get some actual sleep. Which he did.

At about eleven, I am greeted with a cheerful, "Good morning! It's time for a healthy breakfast!" and a hiccuping baby.

So I set up to feed her, settled in, and she nursed for a little bit. Then she decided she was more interested in looking at the world than nursing, so she wriggled around to lie on her belly and look at things.

This didn't mean she wasn't interested in nursing, though.

So she looked at the world while cheerfully gnawing up and down the length of my forearm (previously cradling her when she was in Nursing Position).

(At which point I shouted, "artan_eter!" "What?" "Come look at this, it's funny!" "Moment." Thump up stairs. "What did you say?" "I said 'Come look at this, it's funny.'" And he eyed her enthusiastic chewing (interrupted briefly by her letting go to put on the "YAY IT'S DA!" face), and was amused, and went back downstairs.)

After a bit of this (including swapping her to the other side for a bit, where she nursed for a moment and then made screechy parrot noises at me instead) I decided that getting up was the better part of valor, set her down on the bed, and started getting ready to go downstairs. In the process, I found something amusing.

So I brought things downstairs and found artan_eter in the kitchen.

"It was even funnier than I thought."

"What was?"

I showed him.

"... you have a babyhickey."

"Yes."

"You have a babyhickey on your arm."

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[kiya]

She makes little nurseyfaces in her sleep, so this is not entirely inaccurate.

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

Aren't those the MOST endearing little faces? We used to look, smile and say "Yep, Milk Dreams!"