Baby bird
Last night as I was changing Marlo into her pajamas I found a half-chewed piece of graham cracker, a swath of dried applesauce and two Cheerios tucked right inside the lip of her diaper. And no, I certainly did not experience an inexplicable urge to shove the crumbs into my mouth to avoid having to walk across the room to the trash can. Not one bit.
I'm glad no one else was in the room.
Marlo is a ravenous eater and has yet to refuse anything we've offered her. I'm not taking this as a sign of anything, though, because Leta was exactly the same way until she staged a hunger strike at eighteen months. She doesn't like us to bring up the fact that she used to eat anything, what she probably remembers as The Dark Years, and now when we ask her to try new things she says sure. When she's seven. But not until then. Have I mentioned that she writes our legal documents?
Anyway, Marlo crawls around with her mouth open. If she she sees you eating something from across the room she will motor over, up and around obstacles, and climb up your body to get at whatever it is. Once I was slicing a lemon to put in a glass of water, and she sat on the floor and tugged at my leg, her head slung backward, mouth wide open. And I was all, okay then. You asked for it, kid! And then I cackled wildly as I handed her a juicy rind.
And now she has a new favorite treat:
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kayakgrrl said:
My daughter does that. (Ewww!)
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05.06.10 - 08:22 AM / 1camillaro said:
Ah, that face! Adorable!
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05.06.10 - 08:22 AM / 2SMK1126 said:
Oh my God Heather, that is so cute!
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05.06.10 - 08:24 AM / 3CO said:
My daughter does it too! She loves lemons and always demands them if they are in my water glass. It's very strange!
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05.06.10 - 08:27 AM / 4reymiland said:
That face she makes is just adorable. At least she will have her vitamin c for the day!
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05.06.10 - 08:28 AM / 5mollyawesome said:
Oh my goodness, her laughing expression is making me make the exact same face, so so so cute. Can I hold her?!
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05.06.10 - 08:30 AM / 6Miss Lola said:
She is beyond adorable! Heads up, I know you probably know this, but those lemons are terribly acidic and sucking on lemons is a recipe for disaster for her teeth...I work in a dental office...you do not want your beautiful baby getting decay...lemons are great, just don't chew or suck on them!
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05.06.10 - 08:32 AM / 7Lucy_Luck said:
It is so lovely to see (and hear!) you talking and her reacting to you - it is just the cutest thing! (Sorry to sound cliche, but dammit, it is cute!).
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05.06.10 - 08:37 AM / 8Mrs Jenna said:
I've watched this video 4 times. She is so stinkin cute.
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05.06.10 - 08:37 AM / 9Christabellyo said:
That SO made my morning. She is so adorable.
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05.06.10 - 08:40 AM / 10TexasKatie said:
OMG, she is so freaking adorable!
And I love her strawberry birthmark on her forehead - I had one, too, as a baby. To this day, when I cry, you can see it.
My stepson LOVED lemons as a baby. He used to get that same sly little look on his face when he'd eat one!
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05.06.10 - 08:42 AM / 11Serenity Bohon said:
Ah, the human vacuum years. Shortly followed by the Where-Did-You-Get-That-Gum?! years and eventually, Yes-Good-Grief-You-Can-Have-The-Rest-Of-My-Fries!
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05.06.10 - 08:42 AM / 12kaethend said:
My seven week old makes that same face and smile and scrunchy thing that they do and it just kills me every time.
There's nothing better.
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05.06.10 - 08:43 AM / 13Woon said:
Adorable! The lemon teeth enamel thing is true. :( I love how her shoulders go up with her giggle.
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05.06.10 - 08:43 AM / 14kristanhoffman said:
Haha, my cousin's baby girl did the same thing (demanded a lemon slice) at a restaurant, so we let her have it, and OH MAN did she make the best face ever! She clearly hated it, but she wouldn't let us take it away. She was probably twice as old as Marlo is in this video, though.
Kids are such stinkers, haha.
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05.06.10 - 08:44 AM / 15Cornelia said:
That is the cutest thing I have ever seen!!! Her expression is the best.
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05.06.10 - 08:44 AM / 16selizara said:
I'm told I did that all the time as a kid - demanded the lemons. (And, I'm not going to lie...I still love eating them straight.)
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05.06.10 - 08:49 AM / 17fidothefatcat said:
I don't know if Marlo could be any cuter. Thank you for posting the video.
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05.06.10 - 08:52 AM / 18dtelisman said:
My son is 2, and he wants to try everything, but then he won't actually eat it. He begs like dog. He's just a tease.
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05.06.10 - 08:56 AM / 19duffylou said:
When she hugs her little self and giggles, well I'm just putty.
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05.06.10 - 08:57 AM / 20terrible_t said:
OW MY OVARIES OW OW HAVE MERCY
My son is 9, and still loves to do this... but now that he's 54" (!) it's getting really hard to remember him that small ^_^
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05.06.10 - 08:59 AM / 21tokenblogger said:
I think that one might go viral if you put it on youtube. Seriously.
What happens when you give her a pickle or some vidalia onion?
Made me smile --- and I'll be showing this to the DH --- he's a lemon lover, too.
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05.06.10 - 09:00 AM / 22Lisa Golightly said:
killing me with the cuteness!
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05.06.10 - 09:01 AM / 23ninesandquines said:
oh she SO knows she's got it going on :-)
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05.06.10 - 09:01 AM / 24AlyCat said:
Oh my gosh, that face she makes is the cutest thing I have EVER seen.
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05.06.10 - 09:04 AM / 25acm said:
my kid is crazy for lemons. howevever, we never dare let her hold them while she's eating them, or she'd eat the whole thing, including the rind!! eep.
(oh, and the little hello shrug at the end nearly slayed me!)
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05.06.10 - 09:05 AM / 26Angeerah said:
On Saturday my little guy did that with a lime. He would put it in his mouth, make a face, and then put it in again. He loved it! And no, that lime had not been in a Corona.
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05.06.10 - 09:06 AM / 27snicho2 said:
Marlo is so adorable! I love how she says hi at the end of the video.
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05.06.10 - 09:07 AM / 28verbalicon said:
SMOOSHFACE!
KISSABLE SMOOSHFACE!
What a delicious little girl. Now I know what I'm going to do with the hubs this evening, hehe.
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05.06.10 - 09:07 AM / 29Tam4797 said:
A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E. Sorry for the overuse of punctuation, but hey it's not exclamation marks!!!!!!!!
Wait...
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