I Think My Baby Is Crazy!

I could easily be described as goofy or strange by people that know me well enough, but far from clinically insane. My daughter, on the other hand, seems to be a different matter.

One of the most fun things about being a parent is watching your child develop their own personality and learning their idiosyncrasies. Over the last few months, as my daughter's own personality has started to emerge, it appears that she may have already jumped off the deep end.

My hypothesis started a few months ago when she first learned how to grasp things with her hands. One day, while my daughter was playing on her play mat, the kind that has bars over with toys hanging down, she suddenly grabbed one of the toys that looked like a duck, pulled it to her face, and began screaming at it.

I'm not sure what the duck had said to her, but whatever it was really pissed her off! For several weeks after that, until we changed out the toys on her play mat, she would do the same thing, several times a day, to the same toy.

The insanity had begun.

Since that moment, there have been other "indicators" that my baby is crazy. For example, my wife and I now wake up every day to the sounds of our daughter "singing" to herself. While it's certainly not the worst way to wake up, it isn't the nicest of a wake up calls when she decides that she wants to wake up at 5:30 in the morning.

However, one of the most recent, and more concerning, indicators of craziness is the fact that she seems to be turning into a gummy, gnawing, cannibal.

Before my daughter had developed her motor skills, and couldn't coordinate her movements very well, she would nuzzle herself into our chests whenever we held her. Now, whenever my wife or I pick her up, she opens her mouth wide, gives a battle cry, and buries a gummy vampire bite into our necks, ears, or faces.

And, now that she has some teeth it's really starting to hurt!

My wife told me that at her age, she is exploring her emotions, and that they baby-vampire bites are her interpretation of "kisses", but I really think she is trying to eat us!

While I'm sure there are developmental explanations all of my daughter's crazy actions, that are all probably well above my head, I still think my little one is "a little off".

Then again, this is probably all some sort of cosmic payback from my parents.