It’s My Fault, I Shouldn’t Have Laughed

[brigid]

I’ve mentioned a few times that Niko has some textural issues. This is especially noticeable when he’s not EXPECTING a certain texture. So, for instance, he had a caramel-filled Hershey Kiss the other day. He bit into it and was Shocked! Appalled! Outraged! There was A STICKINESS!!!!!! That was not what he signed up for. I told him it was caramel and it was sweet and he should try it and he looked at me like I was The Great Betrayer and was trying to trick him into something. But then he touched the verrrrrry tip of his tongue within the general area of the caramel, eventually made contact, and realized it was sweet and tasted good. And then he ate the whole thing. So he’s willing to give New Things and Disgusting Textures a chance, at least some times, which is totally awesome. And I try to prepare him for unexpected textures, because then everything goes more smoothly.

So when we had eggnog in the house, I poured a very small amount in a pink Hello Kitty (“Pretty Kitty” as he calls her) cup and told him it was a little bit like milk but sweeter and a little thicker. And he tried a little sip and liked it and had an adorable milk mustache. And he tried another sip and liked it. And then he took a huge glug into his mouth and didn’t know what to do with it, his cheeks all bulged out. He headed toward the bathroom to spit it out but I intercepted him and tried to get him to swallow. He looked around frantically and I made a mistake. I made a big mistake.

I laughed.

It wasn’t a real laugh, it was a sort of chuckle-snort that I tried to suppress. But I didn’t do a very good job of it.

And then Niko laughed. Eggnog sprayed out, a mouthful of thick sweet white, all over himself, the wall, the floor.

I’m really glad it wasn’t pea soup he’d been eating.

And then he started crying because his clothing was all wet with eggnog and Nesko calmed him down, cleaned everything up, and gave him a bath. After which Niko came out and took a few more sips of eggnog and asked to drink MY eggnog which HA! HAAAA! NO! because it was impregnated with Kraken rum.

Technorati Tags: 3 years old, parenting, toddler

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Comments

[al_zorra]

Funny! Thanks.

You aren't a mommy blogger, you know, despite, you know, being a mom and all that. Coz if you were a mommy blogger I wouldn't be laffing -- in a totally good way. Heck, I wouldn't be reading.

Just so you know, this is a compliment out of my own doubtless twisted value system. I hope you don't mind.

Love, C.

[brigid]

I'm glad you like my writing!

I do think "mommyblogs" and "mommmybloggers" tend to be judged more harshly because 1) they're women and they write about 2) womanly things (babies, children, parenting, teaching, poop-cleaning, household stuff, etc). One of the things that really reflects this is how women who write about their kids are called mommybloggers while men who write about the same thing are called parentbloggers. Mommy is diminutive and nickname-y and easy to dismiss, but parent is srs bzniss.

It's cool if people aren't interested in mommy/parenting blogs, just like it's cool that people aren't interested in techblogs or politics blogs or car blogs or whatever. But for the most part, I don't see the judgmental derision directed at other blogs that I see directed at mommyblogs.

[al_zorra]

Could it be because they call themselves mommy bloggers and there are a lot of bitch slaps going on within these communities over what always still seems to an outside entirely personal decisions about breast feeding or not breast feeding? Maybe what I'm trying to say say is a lot of these people come across as in bubbles of the entitled and privilaged and solipistic? I.e., it's class more than gender?

Love, C.

[waldo]

Oh noes! Eggnog bath! Eggnog is kind of weird, though, so he has a point. :)

[brigid]

Eggnog is the tits!

[waldo]

It sounds more like it was ON your...

... nevermind. I think I'll leave that one alone. ;) ;) ;)

[brigid]

LOL

Oh hey, what are you doing this weekend? Niko's going to be in Wisconsin with his dad all weekend AGAIN and I would _love_ another adult around especially if that adult is you.

[waldo]

Yes! We need to actually make a plan and make it happen!

Saturday?

[imperfectlyperfect]

That's adorable!

[brigid]

haha! I felt so bad for him. He's cute most of the time.

[serendipity8791]

That is adorable! Poor Niko all covered in eggnog!

Heck, I'm an adult and have texture issues too (I actually suffered from Selective Eating Disorder and Food Neophobia as a child, because of this). Getting me to try new foods was super hard, and still is, to some extent. So I totally get where he comes from!