Dear Grayson,
When you are eleven years old and everyone at school is making fun of the fact that part of the back of your head is flat, don't come crying to me. For it should be duly noted that I have consistently rearranged your sleeping arrangements to accomodate for this flat spot. Whenever I see you asleep, I move your head to the other side. I have added to the opposite side of the crib an amazing black and white images of dogs which seem to hypnotize you and send you into a rhapsody of joy cooing and kicking the likes of which you never do for us. This hypnotizing and rhapsodizing has come, however, only when the picture has been viwed by you while lying on the flat head side...when I, in an amazing feat of parental genius switch it so you'll be lying on your perfectly rounded side, you get pissed as hell and tell me about it. Loudly. 'And with a scrunched face and occasional shrieks for emphasis. I can only take it for so long...and thus, you can explain the flat-headedness to your peers. For the record, it is not my fault. Your pediatrician, and your father, seem relatively unconcerned...so I assume I'm simply being a neurotic mommy, for the 239,483th time.
However, the fact that you are dressed in outfits that disguise you as various Caribbean fruit and barnyard animals can be blamed on me, and might be something worth discussing with your therapist someday.
With abiding love and concern and absolutely no blame whatsoever,
Your Adoring Mother
2 comments:
I haven't told my almost 30 year old son about the antique boy's dress I had him in during an antique fashion show - he was about 3. :)
I see a lot of kids with flat heads. Funny, back when my kids were little, we were told to put them on their stomachs. Wish the power that be would make up their minds.
it is a mother's right to dress her children as she sees fit until the day finally comes when the children refuse her assisatnce with boys that day comes anywhere between 5 and 50 years old. girls, however, take over clothing selection at about 8 months.
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