I am lying with CJ in the minutes before he drops off into sleep. He snuggles close, pushing his face to my face so that his large eyes peer into mine.
Ever-so-tenderly he lifts his mouth, teeth bared, and makes a move as if to bite my nose.
“Hey!” I shout, jerking away, “What are you doing?”
He sighs, “Mo-om, I just want to bite your nose.”
“No!” I respond, “You’re NOT biting my nose. Now stop this nonsense and go to sleep.”
“But mom, I just want to bite it a little,” he says, very seriously.
I hold my ground. “No. Not even a little.”
“I’ll just bite it really gently. Like this.” He demonstrates a gentle nip on the air, but I remain unconvinced.
“CJ, you’re not biting my nose and that’s final.”
“Pleeeease?”
“No!”
He heaves a big sigh. “Fine.” I can tell he’s thinking, mom’s being unreasonable again.
As he snuggles down into his blankets, I stifle a snort of laughter.
You know that you’re loved when your child wants to eat you.
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May 23, 2008 at 9:53 am
Yes, I’d say you are very loved! LOL
May 23, 2008 at 10:03 am
Awww, that is sweet, you should have let him just take a little nibble. Hehehe. I kid.
Both of my children did that as babies (6 months), I think they were shocked the first time I told them not to, but they had teeth by then dammit. I don’t like teeth on the nose.
Affection!
May 23, 2008 at 10:07 am
That’s precious!
I’ve actually let me daughter bite my nose, and it was not the gentle little nip I expected, lol.
May 23, 2008 at 10:21 am
we do “nose nibbles” (no teeth!), but lately she is interested in blowing into my mouth?? my nose?? wha??
May 23, 2008 at 11:46 am
Haven’t you ever just needed a little bit of a nose or a toe. I get it. He lurves you.
May 23, 2008 at 12:58 pm
So cute. You gotta wonder where these little kiddies come up with this things; maybe its the “animal” side of us!
May 23, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Yes, you are loved!
We do alot of nibbling around these parts. I have to be careful.
May 23, 2008 at 5:55 pm
That’s too cute.
My kids and husband are constantly trying to ‘nip’ me, although for vastly different reasons ;-)
I think it’s darlin’ he wanted to nip you. :-) It’s all about the bananas honey.
May 24, 2008 at 8:29 am
Too stinkin’ cute…gotta luv little boys!
May 24, 2008 at 7:47 pm
haha.so cute.
May 24, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Hilarious.
May 24, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Awww…
May 25, 2008 at 3:01 am
Either that, or he is on the path to some sort of fetish. :-)
May 25, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Funny. Yes, you are loved.
May 25, 2008 at 10:58 pm
How stinking cute is that?
Being a Mom kicks *ss sometimes doesn’t it?
May 26, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I just love it. Lincoln isn’t talking but he tries to bite my nose ALL the time and he laughs afterwards. What is it with the biting? This story is adorable – and it’s obvious your boy loves you dearly.
May 27, 2008 at 8:18 am
That’s adorable – with my littlest, it’s heads and eyeballs.
“Mom, can I eat your head?”
“Can I eat my eyeball?”
“Who wants to eat my head?”
“You’re an eyeball-head”
I’ve actualy declared those bad words at my house…
May 27, 2008 at 8:32 am
too cute!
Zander and i always play a game where we pretend to snack on each other. the other day he pretended to take a bite of my arm. i asked him how it tasted, and he said “mmm…tastes like pizza!”. ;-)
May 27, 2008 at 8:47 am
That just makes my heart melt. Those are the kinds of things I love to write down so I can remember them always. -Rachel