The Kissing Queen
Too busy trying to kiss the lady beside me to smile for a picture!
Somehow we have managed to create one of the sweetest children I have ever been around. I may have mentioned this before, but a phase that she is going through right now makes it even more evident. At least I hope it is a phase because her Daddy will be quite upset if Braylin continues puckering up to everyone that she meets into her teenage years.
It all started with trying to teach her “thank you” in sign language. Right off the bat she started blowing kisses instead (the two are very similar). The only trouble is she would have her mouth wide open when she put her hand to it to blow the kiss, so we showed her how to pucker her lips. That was all it took to create our very own kissing queen.
Of course we were thrilled for her to run to us with her lips puckered for sweet kisses (we still love it). Another good thing is that it was perfect timing for being able to give “sugar” to our family in Florida. Little did we know she would start trying to kiss everyone that she met and our sweet child goes straight for the lips every single time. At first I thought it was cute, now I’m just not sure how I feel about it!
When I am holding her, I guide her toward people’s cheeks or forehead for a smooch, but when they are holding her I have no control over where the kiss lands. As soon as I see her lips pucker and head tilt back, I have started saying, “Oh, she wants you to give her a kiss on the cheek!” I am slowly figuring out how to work around this issue, except when it comes to kissing other children… I haven’t figured out how to conquer that one yet. Maybe I am overreacting, but I feel like there are too many germs floating around to be kissing everyone on the lips.
Am I over thinking this whole kissing thing? Does your child like to kiss people?
