Stupid Mommy Tricks

For those of you who are parents, or who have pets who've become your children, you've been in this place. This place in which you do really stupid things to attract the attention or the goodwill of your child.

You know, the dumb jokes to cheer up a child after they've fallen. The silly faces at the dentist/doctor/vet to keep the child's mind off of what's coming next. Singing the theme from Blues Clues/DragonTales/The Wiggles/The Doodlebops/This List Is Endless over and over in the car because your child loves it so much.

Well, nothing looks dumber than a mama trying to feed her baby rice cereal. I hold my mouth wide open while trying to feed Annie, as if to suggest, "Mommy loves this stuff. You'll love it too." I coo, I gurgle, I talk about airplanes flying in for a landing. I do pretty much everything but sing and dance. Well, no, actually, I do sing. But I don't dance. Yet.

I'm happy to report that tonight my idiocy paid off. Annie took several bites of rice cereal and seemed to actually enjoy it. She spit out relatively little of it. I think we've had a breakthrough.

Just a couple more days of this, then we'll add strained carrots to the mix.

Yummy Yummy.