Monday 26 October 2009

The look

I feel that Dolly hasn’t been getting enough blog airtime so wanted to talk a little about how her character is developing, and how I find that the looks she gives me are a little unnerving.

People have always said about her: ‘She has that knowing look, she has been here before’. It was as if she had read all the books and thus knew exactly how to be a textbook baby. Unlike Betty, she has always conformed to what babies are supposed to do and like/dislike: gnawing on teethers, gazing up at musical mobiles, disapproving of dirty nappies, sticking to a routine etc.

Having said that, with this ‘knowledge’ that she seemingly has, I find myself subconsciously not treating her like a baby, and it somehow doesn’t seem appropriate to talk to her in baby gaga googoo language. I think this may be because when I have pulled funny faces and talked to her in silly voices in the past, she has made me feel like a complete idiot with her ‘what the hell are you doing that for, you look ridiculous’ look. She glares straight at me, with a deadpan expression, momentarily stops sucking on her thumb (but with thumb still in mouth), gives it a few seconds and then sighs, turns away and continues to suck on her thumb.

I also feel that although she is a model baby at the moment, she is just biding her time. She sits quietly observing Betty and puts up with being poked, and squeezed and yanked, but she has a definite look about her which tells me she is storing it all up and as soon as she is bigger and stronger she will give an unsuspecting Betty what for.

This morning, after she had had a good long breast feed, I then ate my toast in front of her. If looks could kill…

5 comments:

TheOnlineStylist said...

God this took me back to SC's baby days! Always looked like a little wise person... and I still get the if looks could kill thing when I eat toast!

A Modern Mother said...

Too funny about the look that could kill... (that doesn't stop, BTW)

Insomniac Mummy said...

Ah, she sounds so much like my Little E is right now.

Lovely.

I've tagged you in a meme over at mine.

http://www.insomniacmummy.com/2009/10/almost-wordless-wednesday-picture.html

:)

Beccers said...

mmm toast... I'm with Dolly, that's just mean!

She sounds brilliant, can't wait to hear what happens when she gets big enough to start poking and squeezing too!

Sparx said...

Yeah, but I bet you the first time you actually try to FEED her toast you'll get that look all over again...