On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Horn, John wrote:
Behalf Of Julia Thompson
Sam has gotten into the act, as well. He's butting a lot higher than
he
was 2 years ago. :)
Which is a real problem if the receiver of said head-butt is a male.
Some of _those_ head-butts are entirely unintentional, and some of them
are really just an awkward expression of love (kid comes running at you
at full speed, doesn't know enough about physics, kid wonders why dad is
writhing on the ground, instead of reciprocating the intended hug).
When Ryan was about waist-high, we were out at a park and I bent over
at the waist to put my hands under his arms and pick him up. So my
face was coming down pretty fast towards the top of his head. At that
same moment, he received a message from his home planet that right
now would be a really great time to help dad by jumping up into his
arms. I was pretty sure he broke my nose. Then I was pretty sure that
he had knocked out a couple of my teeth or at least split my lip. He
was pretty sure that I had bitten through the top of his head. As it
turned out, none of those things had happened, but the two of us were
not in a particularly cuddly mood right then.
As for the origin of Ryan's literal head-butting, I'm pretty sure that
we have Finding Nemo's Crush the turtle to thank for that. I hadn't
really thought about it 'til I watched the film at a friend's house
this weekend. There's a point where Crush is introducing Squirt, his
offspring, to Marlin and he says "NOGGIN!" and the two bump heads. It
was not long after that that Ryan started head-butting Peggy and me
(Or, as he calls it, "giving us a coconut").
So there. We know who to sue.
Dave
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