Check out that monster tongue!
Not too long after Lainey finally discovered how to smile did a slew of other little tricks developed. For the first few months Lainey was very boring, just pooping, peeing, eating and sleeping, but over the last month and a half it’s been a blast watching the baby learn and discovering new things. Each week we’re treated to a new little tidbit that brings even more smiles and giggles (from us, not the baby).
About a month ago, Lainey started trying to suck on her little thumb and fingers, a few weeks after that she started grabbing at her feet, which of course went in the mouth like the thumb and fingers. Next Lainey discovered toys, she even has a favorite little ugly bear that she seems to always grab at over the others, and it always goes in the mouth as well. Then she discovered her voice. Now Lainey literally sits around for hours and babbles. Last week I woke up in the dead of night to her babbling in the other room. It was completely dark in the house, no TV, radio or anything else around to catch her attention, and she was jabbering away.
Now Lainey has discovered her tongue.
Sara and I love smothering the little monster in kisses. It’s hard to not be constantly dolling out the affection when I’m around her. At first she seemed to not pay too much mind too us, but eventually she started turning her head in our direction, like she was looking for a big smooch on the lips. Then soon after that, she started opening and closing her mouth like a goldfish, open and close, open and close, over and over. Then one day, she just started sticking her little tongue out… way out! She almost reminds me of a mini Gene Simmons from KISS.
So for now, Lainey sits around and sticks her tongue in and out, over and over. I am so amazed at it that I catch myself sitting around at times just watching her. I must have wasted a good 45 minutes at one point this past Saturday watching her sticking that tongue out, then back in, then back out and back in.
I am really curious to see what she learns next. But I am actually glad I have a girl and not a boy now. I don’t think I could handle watching my little guy discover his penis. I would be pretty freaked out watching an infant smack their junk around like it was a little Ninja Turtle action figure. If my wiener got smacked the way I’ve seen some little boys attack their own Snausage, I’m sure it would recede in fear, like one of the heads on the Ninja Turtle actions figures I just mentioned.
Friends and family guess that next she will move on to sticking things up her nose and in her ears. I can’t wait for one of those frantic trips to the emergency room, on a mission to suck something very small out of an even smaller hole.
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