Sweet Yet Sour

Messy Girl

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | Mom Stuff

I don’t think that it’s possible to be a neat-freak and be a parent.  You will simply have to let go having everything neat and tidy, especially the baby and you.  Everyone is going to get messy in this process.

For example:

What you are not able to see in this picture is that not only is her entire face covered in rice cereal, but there’s a lot under her chin, and more on her hands and on her legs.

We decided it wasn’t prudent to feed Anna in the high chair, since she looks like a dwarf princess on a giant’s throne in it, and she wasn’t really liking sitting up.  So, we opted to feed Anna her rice cereal in the bouncy chair.

The problem is that the chair is well, bouncy, so while Anna eats she kicks and bounces in the chair.  This means that while we are trying to feed her she is a moving target.  That, plus the fact that Anna spits out about half of what I put in her mouth, and she keeps trying to take the spoon from me and feed herself, makes this a very messy endeavor.

My father aptly calls rice cereal “library paste” and he’s quite right.  Trying to get this stuff off Anna is like trying to get dried Elmer’s glue off her face.  And since she is again, a moving target during the face wash, I have often thought I got it all off, only to go in for a kiss and find that there are still rice cereal chunks all over her face.

Fortunately, while I was once sort of a neat freak, I let that go when Anna was probably two weeks old when I had to live with spit-up in my hair on a daily basis.  Parenting forces you to evolve…

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