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Alleke eating socks at 6 months (April 2006)
I've always found it strange that April uses her socks to clean things. I'm not talking about old socks with holes in them that have been retired to the pile of rags. I'm talking about the ones she's wearing right now.
For example, I remember taking April to The Olive Garden when we had been dating for about a year. She had some tomato sauce on her finger, so she reached down and wiped it on her sock, like it was the most normal thing to do, even though she had a napkin on her lap.
On another occasion we had volunteered to paint a church in Kalamazoo, Michigan where we were living for the summer. When we finished for the day, April sat down on the front step and wiped her hands off on her socks. I still see the fingerprints on that pair of socks when they go through the wash.
If April were here to speak for herself, she would say that wiping things on her socks is better than wiping them on her sleeve because socks go in the wash at the end of the day, and most of the time no one sees her socks anyway. I can't argue with her there, and really, what's more convenient than having a rag or a napkin on your foot, always at your disposal?
Anyway, the reason I'm telling you all of this is because today we had spaghetti for lunch. Alleke doesn't eat spaghetti. She puts her face in the bowl and sucks up each noodle like a vacuum. When she finished, she looked like a clown with a tomato-sauce grin.
I shouldn't have been surprised by what Alleke did next. She doesn't like having a messy face, so she reached down under her high chair, pulled off one of her socks, politely wiped the spaghetti sauce off her face with the sock, and then pulled the sock on again.
She pushed her bowl across the table to me and said, "All done daddy."
Monday, January 12, 2009
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Too funny!
Maybe I should teach my son to do that rather than searching for a washcloth before he can wipe his hands on his shirt.
-SVR
That's brilliant. I've never heard of anyone doing that. Our son just uses his shirt or he wipes his dirty fingers off in his hair.
Both of my kids crawled around as babies with socks in their mouths - I love that!
A few years ago, my husband was changing the brake pads on our car. He didn't have a rag for his hands, so reached over and wiped his greasy-car-fixing-hands on my white athletic sock and I almost had a stroke.
Now, it makes sense since my older son wipes his face on his shirt, and you don't see socks, but you sure see the spaghetti sauce on a shirt collar!
What would be wonderful is if in 25 years your son-in-law writes the same thing about his wife and child!
A new family tradition is born!
That is too funny!
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