Helena calls me aunt Patita, knows how to plant the perfect kiss on a cheek, imitates my every gesture - specially dance moves -, bosses everyone around by pointing her little finger, makes faces for the camera, speaks a language of her own and her smiles and giggles are highly contagious. Better than sugar almonds […]
“Hey, this bathtub looks huge! And Dad is coming in too! How strange! What are those? Other babies? This is crowded, dudes! Oh, look, toys! I want them all! Hey, what is this pink hat you’re making me wear? Take it off! Who wears a hat in the bath anyway?”
The first time I posted some photos of my baby niece, she was 4-month old, and starting to eat solid food. She turned out to be very talented at eating. She’s now double that age and double the cheeks.
How to feed a 6-month baby:
1. Talk gibberish and make all sort of ridiculous noises and faces in front of the baby.
2. Find out which combinations make him/her laugh the most and repeat them.
3. Sneak in a spoonful of green grub while the mouth is open due to laughter.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until most the food is gone - you may have to go back to step 1 if step 2 stops working.
Result: A happy, well fed child, and green grub all over the your face, your clothes, the baby and the couch.
(No photos have been taken, in order to spare the camera from an otherwise unavoidable green yucky coating)
It’s a classic, people always complain about receiving socks for Christmas. Well, not me. I love new socks, and I count on the Christmas bounty to replace the worn-till-toe-peaking-out pairs and the missing-in-action-lonely-divorcees (by the way, does anyone know where my socks go when they leave their better halves?).
Baby Helena (my niece) is now 4 month-old, and her bottle feeding exclusive days are over.
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