Big treats for you mascot lovers!

Mama Buzz is both a gracious daughter, letting me in on all the little doings of our darlings, AND a fantastic multi-tasker. She managed to video while offering Bunny her first taste of solid food. Sweet potato. The body language is such a hoot … ew … weird … gimme more. LOL

The day I did this with little Corporal K, she just could not seem to get the hang of the tongue movement needed to push the food back for swallowing. She kept doing her nursing tongue thrust, which just shoved it all forward.

In frustration, she employed her favorite comforter, The Thumb. Lo and behold, that pesky food just went right back where she could swallow it. So The Thumb it was, for months.

She also found it comforting to stroke her cheek with her fingers while sucking, which when combined with spoon feeding, smeared baby food mush across her face on one side. Then, she’d wear out the thumb on one hand and switch sides, creating a kind of smeared European windshield effect … in orange or purple or green or brown … LOL.

She also developed a distinctive rhythm that the spoon wrangler had to maintain or baby hell broke loose. Spoon in, thumb in, smear face, swallow, thumb out (but not too far!) and open wide for more. Woe betide the poor sod who didn’t have a freshly loaded spoon poised in mid-air!

It was sometimes hard to feed her at all, what with laughing at her and all. No doubt scarred her for life. Still … wouldn’t it be grand if I had had a video-camera-cellphone back then so we could all laugh at her again and again?! I’m bad. I know it.