Jack has never been an especially cuddly boy. Sure when he was a little baby he'd fall asleep while I was holding him, and he likes to cuddle (or huggle as we say, thanks to Avery mixing words when he was about 2) when he gets hurt or is sad. But getting a good hug, or kiss, from him is like pulling teeth! He runs away and thinks it's hilarious. So we've had to get creative in ways to get him to hug and kiss us. Sometimes the faces he makes make it seem like he's actually disgusted with us...how dare we want to love him! :) Can 2 year olds be disgusted?
Sometimes we'll play a sleeping game, where Andy or I will pretend to sleep and the only way to get us to wake up is if Jack gives us kisses. It works about 25% of the time. He's catching on to our ways. :)
Recently we've discovered the he thinks "lip punches" or "lip bumps" are a boy-ish enough way to give kisses. They're not as violent as they sounds, just big kisses. But watch out, he might accidentally not here the lip part of lip-punch and deck you in the face. It happens.
We try not to promote violence, but his face is so kissable...so we have to be creative in finding ways that he things are good enough for him. More often than not, trying to get a goodnight kiss ends up in some sort of wrestling match with all of us trying to get a Jack kiss. He's probably going to be the one that's embarrassed of us at an early age. : )
*special thanks to Avery for taking all these pictures :)
2 comments:
Wow, Avery is good with a camera. All my boys love kisses but Nolan won't kiss on your face. He likes elbows and legs and sometimes we have to remind him that some places aren't appropriate to kiss. He thinks he is so funny kissing all over.
Love that last picture. so funny.
That's hilarious! Good job on the pics Avery!
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