Ok.
Miss M and I are playing daft games on the bed.
I am snuffling her nose and her tummy like a dog and she thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world.
She’s laughing her little head off and saying,
M: “Get down doggy. Get down Mummy doggy.”
I am finding it equally hilarious as when she laughs it just makes me giggle.
There is nothing more contagious than a child’s laugh, especially when it’s your child and you’re voluntarily the cause of their mirth.
Then M decides it’s Mummy’s turn for the snuffling.
She jumps on top of me and starts snuffling at my neck.
Then there’s a sharp pain and I realise she’s pulling my hair.
Me: “Ow, M don’t do that.”
Me: “Ow ow, that hurts Mummy, don’t pull hair M.”
Me: “M, stop, you’re really hurting.”
And she is.
My eyes are smarting, my scalp is screaming and my pain receptors are yelling out, ’stop, for the love of God, stoooooooooooop.’
Miss M stops and grins at me.
I look at her and say gravely,
Me: “M that hurt mummy. It made Mummy sad.”
And M looks at me and still smiles.
I look at her and decide to press on for the apology.
My head is really sore and I need her to say sorry and realise that pulling hair is not a good thing.
Me: “M you mustn’t pull hair. It makes people sad. It’s very naughty.”
and M listens,
then thinks for a while,
then looks at me solemnly with her big, greeny grey eyes and says with great gravitas,
“Sorry Mummy.”
Then she says,
M: “Smell my foot.”
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July 26th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Well, she could have said “Pull my finger!” so I guess you got off easy. Sorry, I’d write more, but I’m still laughing.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:56 am
I think Snags is a little older than your M but he still laughs when we sniff him like a dog! “Smell my feet”… LOL!
July 26th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Heh heh, pull my finger would have been funny. wW’ve not gotten to that stage yet, and Miss E hasn’t either.
Maybe girls miss that one out or it comes later on.
I can’t wait…
Bellevelma Miss M has just turned two-and-a-half so I’m not sure if that’s younger than your snags.
Glad he still laughs at the snuffley dog. Has he asked you to pull his finger yet?
July 26th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Well, you did get your apology. I think we can all learn from this ‘oh get over it’ approach to apologies. It’s over. It’s done. Now lets smell feet!
July 26th, 2007 at 10:25 am
“Smell my foot”, I can almost imagine how it was said, dead pan?
I love (and often despair) how their tiny minds can leap without hesitation from one thing to another without hesitation or interruption.
You’ve got to savour those giggely, laughy, usually painless
, moments though … they’re what make it worthwhile 
July 26th, 2007 at 10:28 am
She has stand up comic timing already. And you probably should count your lucky stars because she could’ve asked you to smell something else. Or is that just boys??
Has your head stopped hurting yet?
Have a great week! (and vacation if you leave before I get back next Wed.)
July 26th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Good Woman, if only all arguments and fallings out could end this way.
There’d surely be fewer wars, and many more foot fetishists.
Alasdair, those moments are the best. it kept me chuckling to myself all day, and we had a rerun for Daddy when he got home.
RC, I seem to remember E asking me to smell something else when she was a bit older than M, so I’m sure it’ll come.
My head is fine now and you have a great week too.
We go away on Saturday and come back the Saturday after, but I have posts planned while I’m away.
Hope you have a fantastic holiday too and we’ll be here when you get back.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Isn’t it funny how from a very young age they soon get the hang of the whole hair pulling thing?
So MUM did you smell her foot? That’s just too funny.:)
July 27th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Mad Goat Lady, I did smell her foot. It was Essence de Grubby 2 year old. Nice.
July 27th, 2007 at 7:57 am
“Smell my foot.”
You couldn’t make it up.
July 27th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Dumdad she now thinks it’s hilarious and is asking everyone she meets to ‘Smell this’ as she shoves her feet in their faces, cackling.
I don’t know where she gets it from…
July 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Brilliant! Made me laugh out loud. Quite ingenious I think!