Zoe loves a song called “We Are the Dinosaurs” by children’s musician Laurie Berkner. It’s a simple brilliant tune about dinosaurs stomping around, eating food and taking naps.
I say brilliant because it makes Zoe march around the room and pretend to eat food, sleep, and so on. It’s so cool to see a 17-month-old use her imagination.
Today I was surprised. During the song she pretended to offer me food rather than pretend to eat it herself. Naturally, I let her put her hand to my mouth so I could pretend to eat what she was eating.
The catch was that she wasn’t exactly pretending… whenever she finds something on the floor (a crumb or piece of lint, for example) she gives it to me. This time, since my guard was down and I thought she was pretending to put something in my mouth, I unintentionally let her put whatever it was right on my tongue.
Blech!
Next time, I’ll be more careful. Just another small example of my kid teaching me an important lesson, I suppose.
