Gillian REALLY adores cantaloupes. I can tell her a hundred times that the cantaloupe is NOT a ball, it's a cantaloupe. She still wants to hug and kiss it and refers to it as "bu-bu-buhhhhh" ("ball"). Yesterday was not the first time she threw a fit because she wanted to hold the bu-bu-buhhhhh in the fruit basket during lunch, but it WAS the first time that she insisted we bring it with us to the living room after lunch. My reasoning is this: if letting her hold, pet, kiss, and hug a cantaloupe will distract her so I can shovel yogurt into her mouth, so be it. That's the thing about parenting. You have to be sensible about which battles are worth fighting. Tooth brushing while she kicks and screams and throws a fit-worth fighting over (since the long term effects of rotten baby teeth would be a Silver Baby Grill; Yes, sadly our days of her happily brushing her own teeth are over). Weird little sloughings from the cantaloupe all over Gillian and the floor?-Not worth fighting over.
Why does she love them? I dunno...maybe it's the cute little green veins on an otherwise beige fruit..or maybe it's the way they are never quite perfectly round. The truth is, I am not sure why she loves anything that she loves (except us of course). She makes the high pitched dolphinesque adoring sound at her poop (this while holding her nose-I admit, we taught her that), Sean's bellybutton lint, the cats, her baby dolls, her boogers, cantaloupes and lots of other inanimate objects.
ETA: Gillian's love of all things round is quite remarkable. At this moment (4/2), the dirty basketball from downstairs that our sweet neighbor boy allowed her to borrow post-basketball is currently sleeping with her in her crib...do I love her snuggling with a filthy kindof flat rubber ball? Not so much. Is it easier to make it disappear when she's in the bathtub later? Quite; we are discerning about our battles around here.
Here are 1) an old video from December of her giving some serious, solemn love to a cantaloupe, and 2) a not so old video (3/3) of her insisting on hanging with the cantaloupe in the living room:
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
For Love of Cantaloupes (the lost post from 3/4)
Posted by Michelle at 6:47 PM
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that is hilarios!!! I lov ehow she strokes it is adoration :) I also envy her Yoga moves in the 2nd video :)
OMG! She is adorable. You really have to wonder why she loves ball shapes so much. It's great you're getting this on video b/c just describing it in words doesn't do it justice.
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