My son's personality is starting to really shine these days.

He is starting to cut his two top teeth so he's been a very cranky baby. He blessed us recently by not getting to sleep until 3:30am one lovely Friday night. I think I'm still catching up on sleep from that. Ever since he started to sleep through the night at 3 months, I've been a little spoiled with more sleep than I could ever dream of. Ha ha.

Anyway, the teething is causing him to slobber, chew, and drool on anything and everything. So, I bought some biter biscuits to see if he would enjoy them. And he did. I usually give one to him while I'm preparing his solid food for the morning or afternoon. I set it on his tray so he can practice picking it up (I think he might be right handed). He puts it in his mouth and gnaws on it, but instead of ingesting the gummed-up, soft, pastie biscuit, he spits it out and lets the sticky slobber run down his chin. Makes for a very messy boy afterwards. If a chunk breaks off into his mouth, he scrunches up his nose, squints his eyes, sticks out his tongue and shakes his head. Quite a scene! If I try to take it from him, he cries out in protest, tries to pull it away from me and chomps on it like a little piranha. After a while, he looses interest in the biscuit, and our dog, who loves to beg at baby's feet, gets a nice (nasty?) treat.

So, while I'm wetting a paper towel to clean his little hands, he decides that he wants to be little He Man. My son sits in a booster seat that has a tray with a snap-in removable dishwasher safe tray. He has figured out how to rip the tray off, which has become a habit of his while I'm feeding him. He'll grab the front with both hands, purse his lips, squint his eyes, and yank it off. He ends up hitting the back of his head on the back rest, but it never phases him. I put the tray back and start to feed him his pureed bananas. He reaches forward again and I tell him no! and he objects with a brief cry (ooo, you're such a mean mommy). It's cute though because he also avoids eye contact with me because he knows he's doing something he shouldn't.

I can only imagine what he will be like in a few months. Crawling and into everything! Aah, the joy of parenting.

I absolutely love it!

To All Prune Hands

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Anyways. . .

It's definitely something that every prune-handed person must go and purchase. Right now. You can do countless loads of dishes (approx. 250) with one 13 1/2 ounce bottle. It's totally environmentally friendly because you're using less water, which is only needed for rinsing. Heck, I could be their new spokesperson!

Okay, so all of you who spend time scrubbing away at crusted over dishes. . .GET THEE TO THE STORE AND BUY SOME DAWN DIRECT FOAM. You'll be thanking me later! I gua-ran-tee it.