Wonderful Weirdness

I wasn't sure where I was going with this post, but after looking at the material I'm working with I came up with a direction.  Or a plan.  Or an idea.  Oh, just let me show you these pictures.  There really isn't any direction or plan or idea.  Hello!  It's me we're talking about.

I took this picture last night after I got Eliana back to sleep; she flopped over onto the couch and snuggled there, and I turned her over in order to get a picture of her hair (because it was so amazing).

She just laid there with her eyes closed, and her sweet little hands were resting on her tummy.  Aren't they sweet little hands?  And they used to be even smaller than that!  It's so crazy to me.  And she's not even my first.  But still, it blows my mind.  I wish I could think of some beautiful and eloquent way to put it, but the truth is...it blows my mind.  It's too wonderful for me to think about or understand, how babies grow and learn and turn into big kids.  It's weird, is what it is.  And if I didn't believe in a Creator I would have no suitable explanation for it. 

After a minute she sat up and I got my picture..

I mean, she could be Rod Stewart's little girl.

I know you wanted to see Rod Stewart.  You can't fool me.

So, today, I told Eliana it was time to get dressed and she ran to her dresser patting her bare tummy all the way.  She looked at the clothes in her drawer and said again and again,"No.  No.  No."  She shook her little head and pushed away all of the things I held out to her.  Finally she saw what she was looking for...this is her favorite thing to wear on any given day.

I am serious when I say this is what she chooses to wear every time she digs around in her drawer.  So her swimming lessons must not have been too bad, huh?  

Finally, here is a child who will not put a strawberry, an apple, a sweet potato, a piece of cheese, a bite of a hamburger, broccoli, peas, corn, blueberries, chicken, spinach, eggs, or noodles in her mouth.  However, hand her a plasticky, rubber toy wheel and she will stick it straight into her mouth as though it were quite tasty.  Delicious, in fact.  Babies are weird on so many levels...but oh-so-wonderful...

Comments

[Jen]

That was so funny! Okay, the tire in her mouth...totally reminds me of Dominic (at age four, mind you) pulling the small rubber tires off of Mike's old micro machines (do you remember these?? TINY little cars!) and putting one UP HIS NOSE! He then blamed it on Grandma Ripke saying "well she wasn't watching me, she walked out of the room"....that stinker! Well we couldn't get that tiny rubber tire out of his nose so Mike took him to the ER at UofM and they proceeded to remove it with very long fine tweezer-like things. NICE eh? So be careful with those toy tires...LOL, although I don't think the size of that one would fit up any child's nose! :)

[Matt]

Christina. Does Mike know that she could be Rod Stewart's little girl?