Tuesday, August 28, 2007

In Search of a Psychoanalyst

Anybody up for the task? Let me get comfy on my couch first. Okay, there.

So. Where to begin.

Princess Thumbelina is quite the character. She refuses to kiss any of us on the face, although she will kiss the boy's backs if they're sitting on the floor, or my legs, or bosoombas...she's sitting on my lap, they're there, so she leans in for a hug and a kiss. But on the face? No. Although it's becoming a game for her. She'll make the Mmmmm-ah sound as she turns to give us her cheek or forehead...and then if Husband is standing beside us, she'll push his cheek so that he's facing me and then Husband and I kiss. It's really funny when she pushes so hard that she actually slaps his cheek.

So my analysis of this is that she is still adjusting to us being her parents. Maybe in her mind, she got the short straw in the pool of parents. Who knows. It's just taking time.

She has yet to call me Mamma, or Mommy. Although when you ask her where Mommy is, she looks at me. And yes, Husband gets called her version of Daddy - more like Da-DEE. Maybe she doesn't know how to say Mamma yet, you ask? I was thinking that myself until last night at supper. Thumbelina was fussy, so I gave her a plastic spoon inside a plastic wrapper to play with (we had take-out for supper) (again), and she looked at it and started calling it Mamma. Over and over and over again. And today, she found the same spoon and called it Mamma once again. The boys thought it was hilarious - Look! Thumbelina thinks the spoon is Mom!

So maybe she is associating the spoon with being fed, and me feeding her. Or maybe I just look like a spoon. A Freudian slip perhaps? If it's not one thing, it's your mother!

7 comments:

Middle-Aged Moi said...

Hmmm.....if I give you my advice, it'll cost ya....:-) Seriously though, my lovely daughter refuses to kiss me too, and she has NO attachment issues, she's just a dork. If Thumbelina is normal in every other way, I wouldn't worry too much. But you could get expert advice, that WILL cost you....LOL!

Kelley said...

You could be describing Chloe. So many of those details fit...she is not a kisser. At all. But we still kiss her--except when she shakes her head and says, "no, no, no!" Tom is also "Da-DEE!" But she does call me Mama. I just don't hear it as much as we hear "Da-DEE!" I honestly don't think it's an attachment issue--but who knows? Maybe it's a sensory issue, and she doesn't like kissing...

Anonymous said...

Hee Hee ... She said Bosoombas!

Anonymous said...

Could have been worse, like...
itty bitty titty.

Anonymous said...

OH MY! My innocent ears.

Melvinette, as always, you are a breath of fresh air.

Thumbelina's Mom said...

You two are just plain weird!

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