Of green beans and vacuum love
Posted on | January 5, 2006 | 27 Comments
This kid is cracking me up lately. He’s starting to be his own little person, and often puts on a silly show just for our benifit. Witness the green bean pictures. He took great joy in alternately blowing loud raspberries and then making funny sucking noises, holding the green bean in place hands free. And, clearly delighted that he was making us giggle, he sweetly offered his Daddy a drag.
He also has an obsessive love for any and all vacuums. (I used to vacuum with him in a sling when he was very small and wouldn’t stop crying. The loud constant noise and the rocking works wonders. Usually he’d be asleep in minutes. This may be the cause of his undying devotion.) The minute the vacuum comes out he scampers over as fast as one can scamper on all fours (which is a heck of a lot faster than you’d think.) He helps me push the vacuum from room to room, trundling after it with increasingly confident steps. Then he thrills to help me push the cord retractor, grinning so wide you can see his spanking new teeth all in a gleaming row. Other times I leave the vacuum out for a while just for his amusment, and he lovingly lies atop it, humming a litttle tune to himself.
But the best was Bean’s encounter with the vacuum at the grandparents house, which STANDS UP rather than rolls. He was in AWE, and promptly began worshipping it.
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January 5th, 2006 @ 11:11 pm
This is beyond priceless.
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:10 am
What an adorable child! Huge, beautiful eyes. The last photo is especially fun.
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:17 am
Oh – this is THE BEST. The green beans, which are only acceptable to me when little kids are snarfling them – and then the vacumn cleaner! So funny. How great that you got a picture of his interaction with his ‘god’.
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:20 am
So funny!
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:20 am
Bean eating beans… too precious, I could just eat him up. And I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard — those pics of him worshipping the vacuum are such a hoot!
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:23 am
I laughed out loud. Worshipping the vacuum. He is fantastic! Those eyes – scrumptious!
January 6th, 2006 @ 1:23 am
OMG! Love it, just love it.
January 6th, 2006 @ 5:15 am
the last picture made me laugh out loud! he’s so precious!
January 6th, 2006 @ 6:31 am
Buon Giorno from Europe, dear christina! Please excuse the typos, as these keyboards are slightly wacky. After 12 days in Italy am now at my uncle`s house in Paris before going home. After reading today`s adorable entry I had to pull my mom away from her cafè so that she too could admire the endearing photos of your boys. Glad to see you`ve been well–minus those pesky people who did not want to be `inconvenienced`.
January 6th, 2006 @ 6:34 am
Bwahahaaha! Oh Christina! Those are just PRICELESS! The last 2 made me laugh so hard. The whole thing made me laugh. What a hoot!! He’s gonna have such great blogging material when he gets older, just posting his baby photos!
January 6th, 2006 @ 8:45 am
OMG that is beyond words..you captured those pics so perfectly – his little face just looks reverential in front of that vacuum!!!!! Your blog is just awesome.
January 6th, 2006 @ 9:20 am
that is tooo funny and sweet…
i wish my kids would have liked the vacuum,
but they were both
horrified
by it…
i could never vacuum when they were in
the same room…
love the pictures, too perfect
January 6th, 2006 @ 9:43 am
Priceless— he is adorable and you have captured his amazingness in photos– I love the one with his Daddy– what beautiful men you have! Lucky girl!
January 6th, 2006 @ 9:56 am
Thank you for the laughs. I’m home with two sick kids and needed a chuckle. Bean may worship the vacuum, but I’m addicted to your blog. Thank you for sharing your life and talents!
January 6th, 2006 @ 10:22 am
Hilarious! I don’t know what it is with vaccuums, but they just facinate kids. I have to say though, mine have never bowed down to worship one. Oh, man, if you aren’t a scrapbooker, you should be with all of these great photos of Bean!
January 6th, 2006 @ 11:47 am
That is so funny! What a cutie! You capture these moments SO amazingly!
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
the worshipping of the vac picture is just
THE BEST.
January 6th, 2006 @ 12:39 pm
Bean’s big blue eyes just melt me. Every time.
My baby LOVES the vacuum, too. Any time she finds a toy that’s waist-high, she pushes it around like a vacuum. Luckily, she got a toy vacuum for Christmas. I keep it in the vacuum closet and whenever I vacuum, she happily vacuums right beside me. Keep that in mind when Bean gets a little older!
January 6th, 2006 @ 1:11 pm
The vacuum worship is tooooo cute!
January 6th, 2006 @ 1:15 pm
That last shot is priceless!
Lily was always afraid of the thing, just like the dog. Just proves I’m raising animals here.
Anya is as yet undecided… mostly because I don’t clean so her exposure to the machine is limited.
January 6th, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
oh thats just darn riduclous wow too funny.
January 6th, 2006 @ 5:19 pm
Those are so cute! Just wait until he’s a teenager and you show him what he was up to as an adorable toddler.
January 6th, 2006 @ 8:23 pm
HA!!! yes, he does look like he’s worshiping the great god of vacumn cleaners…too cute!
January 6th, 2006 @ 11:29 pm
so hilarious – and cute!
January 13th, 2006 @ 4:03 pm
I almost spit soup out of my nose as I saw your tinyone worshiping the vacuum … oh Lordy I needed that!
July 21st, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
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July 21st, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
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