anecdote.

ok, so charis loves to nurse. i mean, the girl will be playing with her favorite toy, put it down and crawl over to me and worm her way into my lap to nurse...just for a few seconds, then off to play again. the last few days, she's been nursing A TON. i think she's making up for when i was dehydrated last week. it's cool. whatever.

the funny thing is, sometimes she tries to nurse on anything she can find. like my belly, if my shirt happens to be shoved up enough for her to see it. it's bare skin, it's in the vacinity, it must have milk to give.

to tonight, i was laying on my back when she crawled over to me and found my exposed belly and crawled up and put her mouth on me. well i thought she was trying to nurse, and i was getting freaked out she was going to bite me, which happens once in a while. then i realized she wasn't trying to nurse at all.

the last couple days, whenever i've changed her diaper, i pull up her shirt and give her razzberries on her belly. and here she was, trying to give me razzberries on my belly! it was so adorable...i could hear her making little buzzing sounds with her mouth. so derek came over to the other side of me, and did it...then she would laugh and put her head down and do it. and she and derek went back and forth like that for about 5 minutes, just blowing on my belly. holy cow was she cute.

it was pretty amazing seeing her imitate me like that...like she had learned when someone's on their back and their belly is staring at you, it's the polite thing to do. you give them razzberries. man, i love my little girl. she just makes me smile.