A couple of months ago, I was at home with my daughter. We were in the kitchen, I had just given her a bottle, and I set her down so that I could make myself some lunch. She was in the typical baby phase of putting everything in her mouth, so I had made sure to spot-check the floor and pick up any debris before I let her crawl around. As I was putting together my sandwich, I looked over at her to find her trying to pick up something from the floor. I went over to look, and it turns out that it was just a blemish in the floor. She seemed to quickly lose interest when she realized it wasn’t something she could pick up. So I go back to making my sandwich. Like 10 seconds later, I look back and see that she’s now lying down on the floor. Assuming she was tired, I went to go pick her up and found that she was LICKING the spot on the floor. She couldn’t bring it to her mouth, so she brought her mouth to it.
We celebrated the girl’s first birthday this weekend, and I’m pleased to say that this is the grossest story I can think of for year 1. (I missed posting on her actual birthday, but whatever, she can’t read yet. And by the time she’s old enough to read AND care about what her dad wrote, blogs will have gone the way of the 8-track.)
I’m even more pleased to say that she seems to be out of the floor-licking phase.
April 27th, 2009
You are a very vigilant father. I am afraid my husband would have just listened for choking noises and applied the noises to his mental scale of “needing to call 911-ness.” 0 being gagging and 10 being “if my wife sees this – I might be in trouble.” Good thing he’s cute.
April 27th, 2009
That’s more cute than gross!
Happy birthday to your baby!
April 27th, 2009
Now that is persistence. She might be a handful when she is older, but I am sure you can handle it!
April 27th, 2009
She may be out of the floor-licking stage, but just wait. There’s the table-licking stage, the toy-licking stage, the door-handle licking stage, the dog-licking stage, the face-of-another-kid licking stage, etc. So much fun ahead.
Happy birthday to The Girl!
April 28th, 2009
Happy 1st Birthday to The Girl! And congratulations to you for surviving your second child’s first year.
On a different topic, whenever I see Wyatt Cenac on The Daily Show, I think of you. You’re that funny and entertaining.
April 29th, 2009
The best part about having children who enjoy licking up spots from the floor is not having to mop as often!
April 29th, 2009
Happy Birthday The Girl Baby!
I live for stories like this one
April 29th, 2009
I hope The Girl had a fabulous birthday!
April 30th, 2009
Wow. Is she already one? Was that a fast year? She is beautiful Omar and obviously very smart.
May 1st, 2009
Omar, Omar, Omar. The truly disgusting stuff comes much later. This is downright ingenious! I can’t believe she’s already one either!
I am ignoring the insinuation in your comment, and framing the compliment.
May 2nd, 2009
All I got from this is that your daughter is a problem solver. Today (and by today, I mean a few months ago) it’s how to get that spot on the floor in contact with her tongue, tomorrow, world peace. Thank you Omar’s daughter. I plan on riding those coattails by saying things like, “Yeah, I knew here when she was still developing neck muscles.” or, “You wouldn’t know it to look at her today, but she used to lick the floor.”
May 3rd, 2009
Whoa. In my mind, she’s like 2 months old. Where did this year go? Congratulations baby. Congratulations Omar and Wife.
May 8th, 2009
lol. that is hilarious. happy birthday to the girl..time flies!