When Alice was first born I marveled that I could stroke her eyelid without her flinching. She had never experienced something unpleasant touching her naked eye and it seemed a symbol of her unblemished trust in me and the world at large. I wondered at the time how long this particular innocence could last.
Of course seven weeks of life have taught Alice the useful skill of shying away from potentially pokey face grooming. Particularly the nasal aspirator, she can smack that thing out of Mommy's hands. Right now the kid has baby acne and cradle cap on her ears (but not her head oddly enough) so bathtime requires extra frustrating steps.
My Alice has traded some of her unknowing trust for some worldly patience.
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Things I swear to do with Alice before I go
- Fly alone with Alice- DONE
- Take T and Alice skiing for 1st time
- Assist Alice and T in choosing family dog
- Yell like a freakshow at Alice's Soccer game
- Walk Alice to her first day of school
- Mommy/ Baby Bath- DONE
- Splish around in Pacific, Atlantic, Aegean
- Double Dutch
- Sew her Halloween costume(s)- DONE(ish)
- Eat lots of BBQ and cobbler in Sweetwater
- Visit the Great-Great-Grandparent graves in Sweetwater
- Sit for a multi-generational family painting
- Massive family reunion squirtgun battle
- Build luminarias for Baby J
- Smell an X-mas piñon fire at Grandma's house-DONE
- Ride the Ft. Worth zoo Camel
- Dogsled
- Picnic at the Grand Canyon
- Go swimming at Barton Creek
- T- Take Alice to Rome where Mom and Dad met
- T- Have Alice read J.R. Tolkien to me
- Read C.S. Lewis to Alice
- Get Alice to identify Pleiades
- T- Roadtrip to Canada
- Build Alice a rockin' treehouse
- T- Camping (chop wood, build fire)
- Bake Gingerbread men- eat their heads
- Mother Daughter "Clue" tournament
- Show Alice how to groom a horse
- Take Alice and Tony to Zozobra Burning
- Take Alice to Balloon FIesta
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- Shots
- Alice found and lost her best friend
- This is just to say
- Alice hates Cracker Barrel
- Underwater Alice
- Thanks Mike
- Aunt Jesse, so silly
- Dad meet Aice
- Uncle Bob
- Insensitive white girl
- Fashion Show! Fashion Show! Fashion Show at Work!
- Fever and a new skill
- We learned to sit up today (with some help)
- Goodbye Green Sack, Hello lovely Present!
- Isty-Bitsy Spider
- Scouting
- Parenting Skill #248
- Trust issues
- Carry me away
- I knew it.
- The poo is on the Other Parent
- Alice n' Joe
- 4 soiled onsies, 3 vomits, 2 sobbing fits, 1 glas...
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1 comment:
Ah, the booger sucker. The evil, no-good, terrible, horrible, very bad booger sucker. Now that Paul is almost 1, not only is he wise to tool (and by "wise to" I mean "loathes"), he is also squirmy, strong, and entirely mobile. True story: I have to pin him to the floor using my feet on his shoulders so that I can use one hand to hold his head still and the other to suck the boogers. Boogers time is a terrible time in Chez Borobia, I tell ya what....
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