Ok, so I exaggerated slightly. but seriously he would. Instead, he will now grab my fingers, pull them down and place his foot in my hand. He then tries to grab my fingers and squeeze them with his toes OR my favorite thing, he tries to run my fingers through his toes.
Our nightly freak show has only just begun.
Lately Ryan's preference, you know once he's tired of the toes thing, is to grab my 2 fingers and press them in to each of his eye sockets. Sometimes he presses quite hard and it not only freaks me out....but is super gross. I've tried to move the placement to the inner corner of his eye...and he will pick my fingers up, move them back to the center of his eye and again press down.
Thing is. When I was little, I remember doing weird stuff like this too. I remember being 3 or 4 and pushing the corners of books in to my belly button. It started out with just piling the books 3,4 then 8 at a time on to my stomach. When I didn't get the kind of pressure I wanted I would press down on them and soon enough I started pushing the corner in until it hit my spine :) I got this bizarre pleasure out of it.
Because of this, I imagine that Ryan is getting the same feelings from the pressure on his eyeballs. So I continue playing along.
He's not my first kid to do weird things. Spencer has always had a binky in the mouth and one in the hand. Never just one binky...2 binky mama, 2 ! He would pinch the 2nd binky between his pointer and index finger and then cup his hand around the nipple and flip it with his thumb.
Syd played with hair. She played with mine when she was a baby and then when she grew her own, she played with it. She would pull her fingers through the same piece every night until it was soft and then twirl it around her index finger until it flipped out of her fingers and then she'd start again until she fell asleep. It was the only way she was able to fall asleep at night. Oddly, when she gave up her binky she quit playing with her hair. She told me that they went together and that one didn't feel right without the other.
Cam has tags....he's always worried tags on blankets and clothes...so we bought him a taggie blanket and he has to have it to go to sleep.
Nathan, thus far, hasn't shown any weird little behaviors. He does snuggle with his baby when he goes to sleep but he doesn't HAVE to have it. I think it's sweet so we put it in there.
One day when he brings a date home I plan on pulling out lots of pictures to show. ooh that's mean huh ?
So there you have it. Little strange freak show things that help my kids go to sleep. And it's all about them going to sleep. So I'll stick my finger in his eye and rub my fingers through his toes damn it. :) ha ha
funny this started about Ry-guy and now will end with pictures of all of the children BUT him. I need to capture the eye socket thing and post a picture.
These are older pictures that I took to document these wonderful oddities. I always want to remember them.
