Josiah Vs. Daddy’s Razor

May 9, 2008 @ 2:09 pm by Pressed

One of the interesting things about being a new parent is all of the fun things your baby teaches you. Now you would think that it would be the other way around. When this all began I figured it was the parents job to teach their children. While I still feel that is true to some degree, I also believe that our children have quite a bit to teach us.

Lesson #1 - Patience. Coming from someone with very little patience I speak from much experience when I say that you are forced into being patient when you have kids. Josiah isn’t always the most cooperative child on the face of the planet. At one point in his life it was easy to dress him and change his diaper. Now it is an all out war. You literally have to strap this child down to the table in order to get a diaper on him. If you don’t, he will flip over, sling poo everywhere and grab the window shades. We have broken window shades as proof of his destruction. Even if you strap the kid in, he can still wiggle his way out. Even after you get his diaper on, trying to put clothes on him is a challenge. We think we are just dressing our son, he thinks its the end of the world and he has to fight for his life. How do babies get so strong anyway?

Lesson #2 - Baby teeth are sharp. I’m not exactly sure why God equipped babies with such dangerous weapons, but baby teeth can hurt you. If you are going to stick something in Josiah’s mouth you best get your fingers out of there before he chomps down, or you could pull back a bloody stump. Every now and then he attempts to see what mommy or daddy tastes like. This is not a pleasurable experience and sometimes it can be rather painful. His little teeth are so sharp he has actually punctured a hole in his lip on a couple different occasions.  He has even felt the wrath of his own sharp teeth by chomping down on his own tongue. He has five of those little sharp teeth already and his sixth tooth is coming.

Lesson #3 - Babies move at the speed of light and without making sound. I never could have imagined how fast Josiah could be. He can grab something he shouldn’t have in a blink of an eye without you seeing it, hearing it, or knowing it until it is in his mouth. Prime example, the other day I was getting in the shower and at the time Kendall had to take care of something else, so I held Josiah until she was finished. While I was holding him I decided to get my water running and at the correct temperature. I leaned in, turned the shower on, and looked back at my son who had my razor hanging out of his mouth! I use the Gillette razor that has 6 razor blades on it and seeing him with the head of that razor all the way in his mouth made me shout out loud. I had to slowly remove it from his possession and luckily he didn’t cut himself, but my goodness! He was right there in my arms and I never heard a thing. He was able to pull the razor off the hanger, turn it around, and shove it in his mouth within a manner of seconds and without me even knowing.

With all of that he is still a cutie! We got his 9-month pictures taken. Just click on the pictures below to see the larger image.

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