"Daring" Do and Funny Leiden

This was a conversation between Leiden and I after dinner.

"Mommy, can I have some sharks?" (shark fruit snacks that my aunt Mylene has here at her house in Atlanta)

"No, sweetheart. You had a lot of punch with your lunch today, and then a great giant ice cream cone afterwards! No more today."

"Mommy, the ice cream cone wasn't giant. It was tiny."

"Leiden, it was pretty big. I thought it was giant."

"No, no, no, no, no. Mommy, Christmas trees and snowmen and THOSE things are giant. I'm still hungry."

Well, if your scale includes Christmas trees and snowmen, I guess an ice cream cone does seem pretty insignificant. By the way, she is eating a piece of bread right now. No more sharks today.

Mac is so much more daring than Leiden ever was. She will lunge after things, lean right of the bed, grab at anything, and tonight added to the repertoire several scary bathtime things. Since she was big enough to sit in the big tub, she has loved to 'grab' at the water when it's coming in. She loved that it splashed her and thought it was fascinating to keep grasping at. A couple times she has leaned her head so far forward to see where this waterfall was going that her head got in the water, and she would quickly pull it away and keep exploring. Tonight, she fully put her face under the running water. Of course, I grabbed her and breathlessly made sure she wasn't sputtering or going to start screaming and let her go. What does she do? She promptly turns her little head to the sky and sticks her face under the water again. With her mouth wide open in one of her face-splitting-open-mouth smiles. Okay, we're not going to sit so close to the running water, anymore.

Then, we're washing, which is done while she is laying down on her back, and she turns her head really far to the side to look at something, which puts the side of her mouth under the water. I grab her arm to make sure she can breathe and keep washing. "Be careful, sweetie!" What does she immediately do again? Open her mouth with another face-splitting-open-mouth grin, and turn her head all the way to the side. For heaven sake. We finished the bath one handed, while I let the water out, pulling her arm to keep her from inhaling as much water as she could. She will require some watching--and maybe another set of hands at bathtime!