Monday - Same Features, Different Face

[ninanevermore]

Today I was thinking about my facial features, and how I never liked them until I saw them on my son's face. I can't explain it: they just look better on him than they do on me.

"He nose is so cute!" I told my husband this weekend, after I kissed the aforementioned cute nose. When you become parents, your conversations become cute in themselves.

"Oh course it's cute. It's your nose," Jeff said. My son, meanwhile, reached up to grab the tip of my nose, which he had learned makes me say, "Beeeep!"

I scowled at my son's round button of a nose. "It looks better on him. I don't like it on me. It's too round. Beeeeep!"

My son reached up and grabbed the tip of his father's nose, which makes Jeff say, "Honnnnnk!"

"I've always thought your nose was adorable," Jeff said. "Honnnnnk!"

Our son laughed like a maniac. Grab the Nose is his favorite game right now.

"Beeeeep! Maybe my nose just goes better on a masculine face. Or at least a baby face. Beeeeep! Beep!"

"You have a baby face. It goes with your face just fine. It's cute. I love it. Honnnnnk!"

I decided to distract our son by grabbing the tip of his nose to involve it in the game. The sound his nose makes is "Meep!" I provide the sound effect for him. He touched his nose in astonishment and squeezed it to make it say "Meep!" again.

Of course his nose sounds more like my nose than his father's nose. After all, it looks like my nose, only smaller. And cuter. Much, much cuter.

Comments

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

The Honks, Beeps and Meeps are a game. We do use other words when we talk to him about important stuff, like that dog kibbles are for the dog and are not good for little boys to eat, and he needs to please cooperate while Mom takes a finger and tries to scoop them out of his mouth.

His eyes are kind of a mystery. Jeff has worn-denim blue eyes, mine are green. Eilif's eyes are steal blue, but they could change as of yet. The dark eyelashes come from neither of us; I have long lashes, but they are blond and hard to see. Jeff has medium length, rather average lashes.

The downward slant to Eilif's eyes (his grandmother calls them "Bedroom Eyes," my baby-boomer cousin calls them "Paul McCartney Eyes") is his most mysterious feature of all. I can't think of anyone in either of our families who has them. If he didn't have my nose, I would suspect that they may have sent the wrong baby home with us...

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

...important stuff, like that dog kibbles are for the dog and are not good for little boys to eat, and he needs to please cooperate while Mom takes a finger and tries to scoop them out of his mouth.

ROTFLMAO!!! You just nearly caused an involuntary nasal expectoration with that one! And all over the keyboard and monitor and important government report photographs, too. Shame on you, missy! ;D