Trained Baby

The little monster has been working on her object permanence this past week. Her self-teaching includes throwing things (toys, clothing, etc.) on the ground and seeing if they come back (uh, if mommy or daddy will pick them up). This happen most frequently in her chariot stroller. Generally the do come back (er, we pick them up), but sometimes we don't notice their plunge overboard. So far this week we have lost 2 hats (I don’t even know how she gets them off without us noticing)….and it is annoying me to no end.

An aside: I have a fetish about making her look cute. We don’t spend a lot of money on clothes (uh, because she’s a baby and I am not going to spend my hard earned cash on something that she is going to puke and shit on for 3 months and then is worthless), but people give us things and you can find nice stuff at the kids resale shops so I make an effort to have her look cute….which includes hats that look good with whatever outfit she is wearing. So I don’t like it when she loses the hats I buy her (especially when I generally have to sew them all so that they fit her head).

However, sometimes it is almost comical (not when it’s hats though) to watch what a kick she gets out of launching something over the side of her chariot stroller. The other day we went to blockbuster to get some movies to watch (because our lives are so f-ing interesting that we have nothing better to do then watch horrible marvel comics movies with Nick Cage – that’s a rant for later). We were standing at the counter paying and I hear, “Ow!” I look over and there are a little girl and boy sitting in front of the candy (I guess in awe of the selection of sugar-infused goodness that was in front of them). I notice that next to the little girl there is one of LM’s toys.

The girl looks up at me and very matter of factly says, “She threw her toy at me.”

“I’m sorry, she didn’t mean to hit you (ok maybe she did).”

“It’s ok,” she says. And hands the toy back to me.

They go back to ogling the candy and the little boy says to her, “My sister has that toy.”

Girl: “Really? Does she throw it at you? (Let it go kid!)

Boy: “No she’s a trained baby!”

Girl: “Oh.”

Boy: “I mean….she’s 10 months old, what do you think!?! She’s trained!”

Awesome! I can’t wait till LM’s training is complete!