"For the love of god, leave your nipples alone!!"

You know that adorable phase when your baby learns to hold their own bottle, and sometimes they play with their ear while they eat? That's sweet, isn't it? My second baby started doing that at around 6 months, it was something i loved terribly, when one day it morphed into something totally different!!

There he was, laying in his crib drinking his bottle, when i noticed that instead of the cute little ear tug there was a less than cute nipple pinching going on... yes, i said pinching... not some little "hey, why does this feel different than the rest of me" kind of caress, but full on titty twister!! It kind of caught me off guard at first, but i figured that he was just doing his own thing, always has been kinda unique! lol

I remember one specific trip to walart when he was about 8 months old, he was sitting in the front of the cart with his bottle but wouldn't drink it until he had fought his hand under his winter jacket, sweater and t-shirt to get to his nipple.  His dad was trying to get him to stop but i told him, while laughing at the sight of this, that it's a phase and he'll grow out of it and he's not hurting anyone!

That adorable little bundle of joy is now 4 years old, and guess which phase he didn't grow out of?! Let's see, he's not still doing the wounded soldier crawl everywhere, he's off the bottle, even fully potty trained, what does that leave?... Yup, the nipple thing!

I tucked him into his bed last night, fresh from the tub, and looking sleepy.  Gave him his hug and kiss, told him i loved him, what a perfect bedtime right? The second i turned out the light i turn and see him goin to town on his nipples again! How do they not get sore?? He does it sometimes out of nowhere too, just standing in the kitchen trying to scold him for having just up and hit his older (yes older) brother, when he just reaches up and twists his nipple... It makes it really hard to give him shit with a straight face!! I guess i'll just continue on with assuming he'll grow out of it and not end up like the guy on little nicky, but i have some solice in the fact that if he carries this into adulthood at least I shouldn't have to bear witness to it then!!