I had started a post today…
Then I went to put Miss M to bed.
I lay beside her as she ‘huggled’ Minnie Mouse and a cuddly otter.
Yes I said otter…
We got it when we went here.
And yes I said ‘huggled’.
A huggle is a cross between a cuddle and a hug. Miss M has always used this word. It is ‘M Speak’ or ‘M-ese’ or something.
So, I read her a story. Lullaby Lion by Alison Bartlett. It’s very sweet and perfect for bed time as it only has about 20 words. M has loved the pictures ever since she was tiny so it’s an old favourite.
Our new favourite is Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.
This is a beautiful book. We all love it. Miss E had it first and now it has passed on to M. It’s one of those books adults like to read and kids like to hear.
This is a litte snippet from the blurb…
Three baby owls, Sarah, Percy and Bill, wake up one night in their hole in a tree to find that their mother has gone. So they sit on a branch and wait…
I read each book twice, laying beside M on her bed.
She drinks her milk and mouths the words to the stories. Each time we say the owls names she points out who is who on the picture.
Miss M: “Dat Sarah, dat Percy, dat Bill, and dat dey mummy.”
Stories over, I look at my child.
I don’t normally lie with her till she goes to sleep, but she is so drowsy and milk drunk that I don’t want to disturb her.
So I close my eyes.
Then I feel two tiny hands softly touching my face. A butterflies wing of a touch.
They move from my cheeks up to my eyebrows.
I open my eyes to find Miss M staring calmly into my eyes.
I smile and she smiles back.
Miss M: “Shhhh, go to sleep.”
I smile again at my tiny girl playing mummy to her very tired Mummy.
Me: “Sleep time for you too M.”
My eyes close, and for a while we lay together in peaceful silence.
Then a small hand brushes a curl from my face.
The hair falls back, and she smooths it away again, lifting it off my face and moving it to the side.
This happens again and she is just about to lay the offending curl against my right ear when she stops…
I can feel her studying me.
I am calm and comfortable under her gaze.
I don’t open my eyes.
Then slowly….
gently….
..she tries to thread it up my right nostril…
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October 25th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Too funny!! I used to fall asleep reading to my two when they were Miss M’s age, trouble is, they didn’t! Oh, the havoc they wrecked…
October 25th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
p.s. I never found my hair threaded through any body parts, but I would wake up covered in stuffed animals. It was very sweet.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
LOL! Snags can’t do that to me. I keep my hair really short. I can totally see him trying to stuff a marble up my nose or something though.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Huggling is a big part of my everyday life. It is one of my favorite things about being a mom.
And the kid trying to sneak a lock of hair up your nose… or in your ear… or your mouth… Yeah. These are the days.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Too funny, Jo! Too funny and too cute!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
How did I just know that this story was going a little too well…and that it would turn nasty in a heart beat..LOL
October 26th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Lovely and funny and I love the payoff line.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:59 am
i spat tea on my keyboard. just great. now i have to get wipes for that.
totally funny, nice one. and this fairly trumps my sons attempts at getting his finger up there, which *so far* i have successfully thwarted.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:51 am
Mrs Weasley your two sound adorable. I have also awoken this with an interesting drawing on my leg. That’ll teach me to drop off for a moment after one of M’s 5.45am starts.
Belle, hee hee. Miss M has put a pea and some cheese up her own nose, (arghhhhh) but this is the first time she’s ventured into mine.
Cami it is the best isn’t it?
You can’t beat a huggle.
Troy, thank you dear. Heh heh.
Mad Goat lady, you now me too well.
Dumdad thank you dear.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Hi Holly. Hope your keyboard is alright. ;D
Come back anytime.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:07 am
That’s funny, Jo.
You sure you don’t want to try some of my Dog Appeasing Pheromone? Probably make her fall asleep a lot faster. Or Baby Booze – you could try Baby Booze.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:08 am
Aw, how sweet. TFYO sometimes likes to caress faces too. But generally, if you’re asleep, she’s more prone to prying open an eyelid to ask when you’re going to wake up. Too cute, Jo.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Ha ha! Yes, that story was just too calm and peaceful. You can’t let your guard down for a moment with pesky kids!
Mya x
October 26th, 2007 at 5:40 am
That is the funniest thing I’ve read today. Brilliant!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Ha! Mine always go to sleep with me, well the smaller two. They are usually so sweet when we cuddle (or puddle as Xander says), but every once in awhile someone wants to see if I’m really asleep and pull my eyelids up.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Napoleon, I just might. Or baby booze. But you can’t give a baby booze you know.
Jen they are so funny aren’t they. How can you not be awake when there is a small person hanging from your eyelid? LOL.
Mya, they like to lull us into a false sense of security don’t they?
Cellobella thank you. Kids have so much blog potential .
Lori, you have the patience of a saint. But the huggles and puddles are the best.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I read the latest post first, so sorry if anyone else has said this, but you should be happy she didn’t have a marker stashed away somewhere.
You would give body art a whole new meaning.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Brilliant! I have just received a teenage visitation asking why I am howling loudly with laughter. I exlained. Apparently this makes me ‘Sad!’. Oh and huggling was a big part of my day for years. So was snuggling, snuzzling, squidging and squdging. And they didn’t drink milk. It was noke – don’t ask me why?!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I was getting all teary…and then I laughed, and laughed, and laughed.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
RC, she did that the other day believe it or not.
I just fell asleep for a minute as M, E and I were watching Little Einsteins together, and I woke up with what looked like Ancient Aboriginal art on my leg. And I didn’t even feel it. And Miss E said nothing. LOL.
Hee hee Belle. You are soooo uncool. LOL. And miss M calls it moke. Funny aren’t they?
Kimberley, it was so cute and so funny.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Ha ha haaaa! You got me! Must be reading this far too late – didn’t spot the end coming! Brilliant! Gotta go get water now to recover from the coughing fit you just induced!:-)
October 26th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Ps. You’re blog completely hates me. It wont even give me one smiley now! (and unless I fell asleep at the keyboard, are you on a different time zone? Could’ve sworn it was 12.15am…)
:-):-):-D;-):-):-D;-D:-D:-)
October 26th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
You gotta give her points for constructive creativity, right? It might have worked!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
awwwwwwww Jo! This story certainly blessed my heart. They are just so sweet and innocent….and alittle bit silly.
October 27th, 2007 at 3:54 am
That was so sweet and so funny. Kids, don’t you just love ‘em to bit! x
October 28th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Englishmum, my blog seems to be off smilies with noses at the minute…I have no idea why. And Ashley set my blog time thingy so that it’s kind of at a standard world time or something. It’s about 8 or so hours behind our time.:D
Avery, I agree. Maybe she just sees me as a big bead.
Dear Corey, sweet, innocent and silly is just right.
Akela, hee hee, I do. They always manage to make me smile.