blame game

I'm pretty sure that I've written something about Edith being part ninja, if I didn't, well... she's a ninja. Anything that is in the realm of her hands is going to be hers. She'll throw her body (with the assumption that we will still be able to hold onto her) towards whatever she wants. She'll even trick you with her back-bend move where she's fooling you into thinking she is going to just be a sweet baby and look up at those oh-so-fascinating lights and then wham... she grabs whatever she had her eye on and shoves it into her mouth with a sweet little smile of victory.

Sunday morning we were sitting in the pew at church, after already handing her all of the papers we were given while cursing myself (well, not cursing, we were in church) for not bringing anything for her to chew on. She was gazing at the bibles, drool running down the corners of her mouth just thinking about chewing on something as delicious as those leather bound books.

She was starting to fuss.

My husband and I traded Edy back and forth. My husband leaned over and said something to me. I leaned back over to him and whispered in his ear, 'you need gum'.

(I know, I'm such a sweet, adoring wife.)

I pulled the pack of gum out of my bag. It's the kind where they pop it out of the back. I handed it to him.

Then Ninja Baby swept in and grabbed the pack out of my hands. She started chewing on the corner, which I decided... 'she's quiet, she's happy, no problem.'

Then she gets this look on her face. She starts coughing, and coughing and more coughing. Her little face turns red and her eyes start watering. I'm feeling horrible.

She's continues coughing and coughing.

I stick my finger in her mouth to see if I can find anything. (Yes, I know you aren't suppose to do this... whatever, I did).

She gagged and threw up.

She coughed more and threw up more.

Then finally she started to return to her normal coloring, her body relaxed.

Finally.

Stupid gum.


Yes, I'm blaming the gum

or my husband, for needing the gum in the first place.

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