Yet another head cold

[kalquessa]

ME: *blows nose*

BEAR: *blows raspberry*

ME: *blows nose*

BEAR: *blows raspberry*

ME: *blows nose*

BEAR: *blows raspberry*

ME: Sometimes I think you're mocking me.

BEAR: *laughs*

ME: Do you find my pain amusing?

BEAR: *does "so big" arms*

ME: Well, I'm glad someone's enjoying themselves, anyway.

Comments

[jaxomsride]

Aww he's communicating!

Another week of this and he'll be fluent in head cold.

[archersangel]

hope you feel better soon.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

It gets worse: Small Child does actively and knowingly laugh at my pain. It's worst when she's the one who inflicted the pain. ("I'm sorry!" snerk "I didn't mean-" gigglesnort "Sorry!" GUFFAW)

Hope you feel better soon!

[scionofgrace]

That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.

My brother and sister-in-law taught their first child kiddie sign-language, and thus he was telling jokes before he could talk. It was bizarre.

[thothmes]

Colloquy with earnest, anxious-to-be-good, doesn't-like-to-push-boundaries First Child, age 18 months.

ME: Don't do that.
CHILD: Okay.
ME: I said don't do that.
CHILD: Okay, Mummy.
ME: DON'T DO THAT!
CHILD: [grinning] Okay.
ME: [thinking: "Oh, God! My sweet, biddable child has turned into my prickly nigh-ungovernable little brother all of a sudden! Why?! Why me, God???!!! WHY???!!!" ANGRILY] Do you LIKE it when I get mad?
CHILD: [happily, dreamily] Yes!

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Turns out they go through a phase where the thing that delights them is the predictability of it all. The deep delight of my doing something that she expected each and every time completely overrode her usual aversion to any kind of crossness or criticism.

Until I read up on it and figured this out, though, it was quite a trip down the rabbit hole!

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[kalquessa]

Yeah, he has this thing where he reaches out and pulls on the diaper pail, which is the only off-limits thing in his room, and looks at me with this smile like, "Look, I can control you! Every time I do this, you frown and say 'No'!"