Slappy Has The Best Mom Ever

Jess left her camera cord in NJ, and it is heading cross country with various other Christmas goodies. So, instead of Maddie's usual goings-ons, and they are good - here is a little blast from the past, and a tale from yesterday. Maddie was about 1 month old in this photo.

Yesterday, out of desperation, Jess gave Maddie an old pizza box to play with while she tried to get dinner together. Soon, she realized that Maddie had grown rather quiet, and appeared to be munching on things. Those things turned out to be the old, dried leftovers from the inside of the box - think onions, green peppers, maybe a little bit of cheese. Jess cleared up all the major chunks - from the box and Maddie's mouth, but since the pizza box was proving to be such a good distraction, she left it with her and began to work on dinner again. After a bit, she began to hear some squeaking. She looked down to see Maddie running her entire hand along the floor, gathering up all of the pizza box crumbs, bringing her entire hand to her mouth, and licking it. Excellent.