Give the Baby Some Space

Just give the baby some space!

So after writing passionately about Bump Feelers and Baby Holders, I now bring you the Baby Shoe Chewers.

No, really. Look, it’s all very lovely that people on the street take time out of their day to admire my little man.

Look at my little heartbreaker…but today in a well known supermarket, the sweetest old lady walked right up to us, cooed and ahheeed and ooohhed and then went from normal to not so much, when she started to chew on his denim Gap loafers (he was working the denim on denim look today)-only, I repeat only a 6-month-old can get away denim on denim.

Ok, maybe Usher. And perhaps Jake. But that’s it. Nobody else surely?  You remember the whole Britney/Justin denim throw up situation don’t you? (I was eating whilst typing so couldn’t bring myself to posting) but it’s not easily forgotten…

ou remember the whole Britney/Justin denim throw up situation don’t you? (I was eating whilst typing so couldn’t bring myself to posting) but it’s not easily forgotten…

Source: Bauer-Griffin Online

So back to the baby shoe chewinggate. It was all rather uncomfortable. I was trying to pay whiles being polite to the lady and simultaneously manoeuvring the trolley away from the chewing mouth. I get it, people are lonely, the elderly can be lonely. We can all be lonely. There was no way I was going to be rude to her, she appeared to be a kind woman who meant no harm with a love of chewing Gap loafers in size 6-12 months. It was just all a bit weird. Sometimes, just sometimes I feel I’m losing mine and my baby’s personal space. I welcome the lovely comments and kindness but there are times, especially times at rush hour in the supermarket, where I just want to yell, “Please no pulling of cheeks, kissing of heads nor attempts to hold my baby will commence today, OK?” (I often sound like an extra from Made in Chelsea in Asda, totes). Surely, though, withholding from chewing my child’s shoes is not a lot for ask is it? Is it?

I get it, people are lonely, the elderly can be lonely. We can all be lonely. There was no way I was going to be rude to her, she appeared to be a kind woman who meant no harm with a love of chewing Gap loafers in size 6-12 months. It was just all a bit weird. Sometimes, just sometimes I feel I’m losing mine and my baby’s personal space. I welcome the lovely comments and kindness but there are times, especially times at rush hour in the supermarket, where I just want to yell, “Please no pulling of cheeks, kissing of heads nor attempts to hold my baby will commence today, OK?” (I often sound like an extra from Made in Chelsea in Asda, totes). Surely, though, withholding from chewing my child’s shoes is not a lot for ask is it? Is it?

It was just all a bit weird. Sometimes, just sometimes I feel I’m losing mine and my baby’s personal space.

I welcome the lovely comments and kindness but there are times, especially times at rush hour in the supermarket, where I just want to yell, “Please no pulling of cheeks, kissing of heads nor attempts to hold my baby will commence today, OK?” (I often sound like an extra from Made in Chelsea in Asda, totes). Surely, though, withholding from chewing my child’s shoes is not a lot for ask is it? Is it?

It was just all a bit weird. Sometimes, just sometimes I feel I’m losing mine and my baby’s personal space. I welcome the lovely comments and kindness but there are times, especially times at rush hour in the supermarket, where I just want to yell, “Please no pulling of cheeks, kissing of heads nor attempts to hold my baby will commence today, OK?” (I often sound like an extra from Made in Chelsea in Asda, totes). Surely, though, withholding from chewing my child’s shoes is not a lot for ask is it? Is it?

Surely, though, withholding from chewing my child’s shoes is not a lot for ask is it? Is it?

I welcome the lovely comments and kindness but there are times, especially times at rush hour in the supermarket, where I just want to yell, “Please no pulling of cheeks, kissing of heads nor attempts to hold my baby will commence today, OK?” (I often sound like an extra from Made in Chelsea in Asda, totes). Surely, though, withholding from chewing my child’s shoes is not a lot for ask is it? Is it?

Anyway, I digress, let’s get back to the real importance of this post: the denim on denim debate. Is there anyone else out bar my boys Usher and Jake who can rock it?

Picture of Alexander © Peter Broadbent.