Nina's Sick
Well, lil Neener has caught a cold. She's quite the trooper about it. Though it is obvious she feels lousy. This morning when Alison dropped Nina off at her grandmother's house, Nina didn't want to be set down. Then Alison asked her mom to look at Nina's face and see what she's doing. Nina had fallen asleep two and a half hours before her naptime, while being held.

Documenting Nina: Hygene
Nina is all about the hygene. She likes baths. She loves to have her hands washed, espcecially with germ-X hand sanitizing gel. And she absolutely adores to have her teeth brushed. In fact, it's not uncommon for her to throw a fit when, after a good five minutes of alledged teeth brushing, you eventually decide that the tooth brushing event is over.

Bathness
If you're giving her a bath, she likes to play with the running water, so filling the tub while she's in it is a good thing. You must put the little rubber ducky faucent cover on or she'll pull the shower activation stalk up, the shower will rain down on her, and she'll fuss, or if you keep fixing it and she keeps pulling it up, after the third time or so, she'll be crying since she definately wants that stalk up, but doesn't want it to be raining on her.

She has toys for the tub. Just a few blocks, really. They get played with more when she's not taking a bath, since one of her self imposed duty stations around this house it to throw all objects on the side of the tub into it. And last night, when Alison was bathing her, Nina obviously did something really funny or entertaining, since Alison laughed for about 20 seconds at some point. I was upstairs on the computer, so I don't know what happened.

Nina knows the words for different hygenic acts. "Do you want to wash your hands?" "Do you want to brush your teeth?" Both will always elicit a nod.

Hand Washness
When I wash her hands with the hand sanitizer gel, I'll wash mine too. And really, it's not really washing them, but making the dirt, snot, or whatever on them clean. Sometimes Nina will get to stand on the countertop while I squirt some germ-X onto my hand, rub it between my hands, and then put it onto Nina's hands. She'll rub her hands together for at least seven tenths of a second, and then smell her hands. She really likes hygene products that smell good. Though if you smell germ-X before it dries, then I think technically you're huffing it. You can tell when this happens, as Nina doesn't react positively to the inhilation of alchol fumes. She doesn't cry or anything that dramatic, but it's not her "aah" of satisfaction after smelling her hands you usually get.

Teeth Brushness
Brushing her teeth is generally done with her sitting. Specifically, she sits on the counter and has her feet in Alison's sink. I'm not sure if when Alison brushes her teeth she puts Nina's feet in my sink, but when I'm in there, I tend to use my sink, so Alison's is the dry one.

Nina has her own little tooth brush. And in typical 00's fashion it is covered in odd shaped rubber grips. The grips have teddy bears molded into them. I usually pretend to put some toothpaste on her brush, or barely touch the brush to the toothpaste tube. I'll brush Nina's teeth, the roof of her mouth, the insides of her cheeks, her gums, and I'll try to get her tounge, but she doesn't isn't up on the tounge brushing.

Alison puts too much toothpaste on Nina's brush, in my opinion. I've suggested that Alison do what Nina does, and actually swallow the toothpaste, so that she gets a feel for it. Kids aren't supposed to eat toothpaste, and while this isn't like a tablespoon or anything, it's still toothpaste.

After we brush her teeth, we let Nina at it. She does some stuff, ends up drooling all over her shirt, and then gets upset when we end it.

Overall, pretty clean and hygenic kid.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 2:11 PM