When Emmeline was only a few days old she was still getting the hang of the whole nursing thing and she'd occasionally miss the mark. Sometimes she'd suck on knuckles, or fingers or, most amusingly, any exposed skin. On anyone. Like Todd's neck. So we started to call her Vladeline. You know, like Vlad ("the impaler") + Emmeline. Emma's aim has much improved since then (aside from the occasional sleepy early morning nibble on my ribs) so I had forgotten that we called her Vladeline until this morning. When she made a gory looking meal out of a raspberry.
I'd first thought that it would be a bad idea to give her a raspberry because I didn't think they were squishy enough. Evidently I'd underestimated her hand strength and her reach because she promptly reached over and squashed one. With that misconception out of the way and she proceeded to massacre a few for her breakfast. In doing so she had the seeds dribbling out of her mouth in such a way that I though she looked just like a little vampire and her earlier moniker came to mind. Watch out raspberries: Vladeline is back!
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