Oh, Spencer. You slay me sometimes.
I thought I'd share with you, dear devout readers, a little tidbit from my daily life:
At ten months old, my son is a three meal per day baby (with bottles at meals and between meals). Since he was eight months old, he's had a bottle AND a jar of baby food for breakfast. Yesterday and today he has decided he'd rather not eat the baby food, and has opted for finishing his bottle (something he doesn't usually do). After tasting the stuff hundreds upon hundreds of times, I cannot fathom
why he'd prefer sickly sweet and wheaty tasting formula to something as awesome as a blueberry/ raspberry baby smoothie- but that's just Spencer. This week, anyways.
Ok, Spencer waves bye-bye. Spencer does not yet know the word "no". There is a reason for this- I rarely ever use it around him because I don't want him to pick it up. If he's doing something I don't want him to do, I say, "Don't do that", "please stop", or "I think we've had enough of that". If he keeps it up, I usually say, "All done" and use the ASL sign for it, and take whatever it is away from him. Seems to be working.
At breakfast, yesterday and today, Spencer takes one bite of his food, looks at me, and makes a face that makes ME think I've just fed him something that is either a) poisoned, or b) rotten. I taste it again to make sure I haven't given him something lethal. Delicious; as usual.
Upon trying to insert second spoonful into aforementioned baby's mouth, Spencer looks me dead in the eyes, says, "all done" and then proceeds to wave bye-bye. As in: "she usually leaves when I do this... maybe she'll get the hint and shove off".
Personally, I take this as a sign of his brilliance and his mad awesome communication skills.
My mother just says he has an attitude. Psh.
Comments (7)
Haha! Adorable. "Get out of here, lady. I said I was done!" I would have laughed, too.
awwwh! thats so cute in my opinion! I think he sounds really smart to me. I like your idea of not using the word no. but what about "no thank you"? would you still use that around him or do you have another phrase instead? (just a curious question) I truly like this though, your son sounds adorable.
He sounds just like one little guy I watch, which means he is awesome. Keep up the good work, you sound like an awesome mom.
O LOL!
Awesome kid. People should teach their kids sign language, I figure that since they have a medium of actual communication, they don't cry as much.
- Kunoichi
@believe_in_dreams27@xanga - Yes, I do sometimes use the word no. It's a necessary word. Especially if he gets near something we definitely don't want him touching- like something he could hurt himself on (then a yelled "no" to stop him in his tracks so I can intervene before he's hurt is ok). We use "no thank you" around him all of the time. The challenge is finding the balance, lol.
@michcoy@xanga - Thank you, I'm trying. He's a pretty awesome son, so he makes "the job" easy, hahaha.
that made me smile :)Â