December 15, 2011 Addendum

Also, you guys: Watching babies try to pick up pieces of banana is kind of hilarious.

December 15, 2011

I know guys, it’s been a slow updating season.

Grossest:

A baby spit up on my hand and I didn’t even notice.

A baby pooped up the back of her diaper and it soaked through her shirt and onto my apron.

A baby snotted in another baby’s hair.

Cutest:

There is a baby who tries every day to eat my knee.

A baby actually said, “Goo goo ga.”

We have a baby who “talks” in his sleep.

An older baby tried to nuzzle a much younger baby today and the younger baby started cracking up laughing about it.

It’s been awhile.

Grossest:
A baby had a diaper rash so bad there were open sores on her bottom.

I was trying to check a baby for coxsackie and while I was trying to look in his mouth and get him to stick out his tongue he spat right on my mouth.

A baby decided to try to do that thing where you spit a little and then suck it back in and then spit a little more and suck it back in, all without even knowing that is a (gross) thing that people do.

Cutest:
I had a temporary tattoo on my arm and a baby saw it and said “Dat?” (which is Baby for “What is that?”). I said, “This is a temporary tattoo.” The baby said, “Owie.” I said, “I see why you’d think that, but this is not an owie. See?” I poked it with my finger so she could see that it didn’t hurt me to do so. She watched, and, clearly assuming that I was just demonstrating an awesome suppression of pain, kissed it.

A baby went on vacation to Hawaii and when he came back I asked his dad about the trip. The dad said, “I think it helped him develop some language. His fear of the ocean was so great that he learned to say ‘No like agua’ within the first half hour.”

A baby was reaching for a toy and another baby ran over and grabbed it. Baby 1 was FURIOUS. He was screaming and trying to swat at things, and vaguely tried to chase Baby 2. I said, “Hey Baby 1, it looks like you’re really upset that Baby 2 just took the toy you wanted to pick up.” Baby 1 said, “YEAH!” “It seems like you just need to get some of this frustration out. Would you like to go sit on the blanket and be mad for a little bit? When you feel better, you can get back up and play again.” Baby 1 considered this for a few moments, then walked angrily over to the blanket and plopped down on it. He watched other kids playing for about a minute. Then he got back up and went back to playing.

A young baby whose dad does construction work for a living was playing with blocks. Completely on his own, he stuck a long block on a short block, then deliberately walked over to the playhouse and held it up to the handle of the playhouse door like a drill.

Even though many of them can’t even talk yet, everal babies have started trying to hug, give soft pats on the back, or bring a toy to another baby who is upset.

June 27, 2011

Grossest:

A baby who is learning to potty train pooped in the potty, which is awesome, but once we got her dressed pooped in her pants, and once we got her cleaned up from that, pooped in her pants again!

We put a poopy cloth home diaper into a several plastic bags for the parents to take home and deal with and the parents left it two days in a row. I had to throw it out because it smelled so bad.

A baby bit through his lip, from one side to the other, by just sitting down really hard.

Cutest: 

Babies learning to say three-word sentences.

A baby whose mom is pregnant  lifted the shirt of another baby and put his head on her tummy and said “hi” to the baby’s tummy.

When we emptied the water table for the day one baby was determined to get in the stream of water coming out and managed to climb under the table and into the water two times in a row, both after we’d just changed him into a dry shirt.

Three babies danced around in the drips from over-watered hanging plants, giggling and saying “agua!”

June 16, 2011

Grossest:

A baby figured out how to gag herself and will sometimes poke the back of her throat with her finger until she makes a gagging noise and then do it again until she gets bored of it.

Cutest:

One of the babies decided she would rest in my lap, and lay down across it and looked up at me and babbled while she relaxed.

Jokes

I just came across a photo I took of a joke my youngest sister wrote down back in May and thought I’d add it here. I just find this fascinating. We talked for awhile about jokes and what makes something a joke as opposed to just a story, and this is the joke she came up with after that conversation (I’ve corrected the spelling for readability):

“Say the whole world is made out of balloons and the space has real stuff. The balloon cat is not afraid of the balloon dog. How did the balloon cat get scared? The real dog came and scared it.”

June 15, 2011

Grossest:

A baby is learning to potty train and pooped all over her underpants.

A baby came back from vacation with old bite mark bruises all over him from his brother.

A baby rubbed his boogery nose in my hair.

A baby reached into his poopy diaper and smeared poop all over a fence and his jacket.

A baby pushes other babies down and throws things because she’s excited to see me and wants my attention.

Cutest:

A baby has decided to drag me all over the yard with him by the hand so he can show me things.

A baby now says “More singing please!” whenever a song we’re singing to them ends.

A baby got out blankets, pointed at the ground, and yelled at another baby to go “night night.”

About half of the babies can now say my name to some degree.

April 18, 2011

Gross:

A baby spent so much time in the sandbox that there was a ton of sand in his poopy diaper and it was a disaster to clean up.

A baby had diarrhea and it got everywhere, including all over a teacher’s clothes, her arm, the rug, and somehow, inexplicably, even on another baby.

A baby was still pooping after I wiped his bottom.

A baby somehow slobbered on my tummy.

Cute:

An older baby was helping me clean up and I asked her to pick up the balls in the yard and put them in a basket and then she got distracted and was running around in circles, so I asked her, “Hey, I thought you were helping me pick up the balls! What happened? Are you over that plan?” and she responded, “Yeah, I’m over that plan.”

I showed some babies how to jump up and down and one of the babies was super into it. The next day he found me and remembered and pointed at me and pointed at the ground and said “UH!” I asked him what he wanted and he repeated the same process. I said I wasn’t sure what he wanted again, and he repeated the process and said “JUMP!”

One of the babies now shrugs his shoulders and looks around questioningly every time anyone says “Where is [anything]?”

A baby who hasn’t been with us a very long time climbed the stairs by the window and said clearly, “Christa! Towel.” Her parents also said she walks around the house saying my name for no apparent reason. This is awesome.

March 10, 2011

Grossest:
A baby tried to bite my tummy.

A baby slammed its head into my chest on purpose.

Cutest:
If you tell one baby to show you her muscles, she attempts to do so by tensing up and shaking.

I tried to show the babies downward facing dog and they were delighted but crawled under me.

March 3, 2011

Grossest:
A baby who came over to say hi to me started vomiting out of nowhere, and I had to clean it up, and everything smelled like puke for the rest of the day.

A baby diarrhea-ed all the way down into her shoes.

Cutest:
Five babies were hanging out in the driveway and I pointed out a butterfly flying around in the bushes there and the babies LOST THEIR MINDS with excitement. They were squealing and laughing and pointing and exclaiming and talking to each other in gibberish about what they saw. Two of them learned to say “back” as part of this, because I asked them if they thought the butterflies were going to come back when they flew away (which they did). Every time the butterflies flew over the fence where we couldn’t see them the babies would put their hands up like , and say “back?” or “back!”