Tonight I bring you two tales of how people have amused and/or disgusted me this week!
First, the amusement (which is likely disgust for the person involved as you shall see). One of my friends just had a baby this week, a beautiful bouncing baby boy. This is their second child and the husband, a roommate of mine from way back in college days, sent out the emailed birth announcement. The attached pic showed his clearly exhausted but proud wife lying back in the hospital bed holding the just fresh from the oven baby. The picture had clearly been taken perhaps minutes after the birth but one issue remained, her hospital gown was placed just so that you could see a whole lotta nipple.
Now I am by no means a prude and I don't think she is either but this email went out to pretty much everyone they knew, including elderly family members. What is more the husband sent the email from the wife's email account and didn't sign his name making it look like she was the one sending out nipple pics of herself.
I am not sure how she reacted to all this but an updated email was sent out today with a pic of the whole family, all clothed, smiling before leaving the hospital.
It reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine sends a Xmas card out to everyone she knows with a picture on if where she is unknowingly flashing some nipple. I laughed out loud at the scene where George berates her for not sending him a card and she yells, "You want a card? You want a card? Here's your card!" and grabs his head and mushes it in her chest.
The other tale is not so fun loving but amuses me nonetheless.
Since I have become an official stay at home mom I have been looking for things to do with A. She really lights up when she is around other babies and other people and I discovered an excellent family center in my town with baby play groups for free. They place is stocked with awesome toys and a bucket to throw toys that have been slobbered on so they can get cleaned. There is a leader who does about 15 minutes of songs and music and the rest of the hour is just the moms and babies hanging out chatting while the babies interact with each other and toys.
Anyway, since it is free and open to all moms and babies I have met a real cross section of ladies. As in life, most people you meet are nice and interesting enough but occasionally there is someone you really click with and sometimes there are those who should come with a warning label.
This week I met the latter.
One of the very first questions that anyone will ask in these groups is the "How old is your baby?" one. It is a totally fair question, one I too open up with. Baby A is 10 months old. She looks 10 months old as she weighs in with a bruising 22 lbs and is pretty tall as well. She is, however, developmentally delayed in gross motor and perhaps some other areas too as she does not yet wave or clap for example. She does not crawl, she does not pull to stand, she can roll but sometimes gets stuck. She can sit for long periods but will fall back and hurt herself if there is no pillow behind her.
So this lady comes in with a 9 month old baby girl who is totally adorable and waving and clapping and smiling up a storm. We do the chit chat about birthdays and age and names and coo at each other's baby and then she asks if my baby is crawling yet and I told her that she isn't and explained that she has low muscle tone and is getting physical therapy to help her develop those skills. She looks all horrified and then says in almost whispered tones, "Oh your poor baby! Is she a cripple?"
Um, yeah. No.
Clearly girlfriend here is a) a new mom with very little experience with watching other babies develop and b) an idiot.
She also asked me for my contact info so we could hang out. I gave it to her because I am a sucker but mentioned that with my son's schedule I am pretty busy. The real reason is that I just don't want to hang out with people who use terms like "a cripple."
So yes, people be funny n' stuff!