Jude has a thing. A quirk. A habit.
He’s a face-toucher.
It’s weird. It’s unnatural. It’s unnerving. It’s… it’s… it’s just not right.
Alright, it’s 2% sweet, 98% inappropriate.
Thankfully, I guess, he only does this to his brothers.
Jude touches Jett’s face and Jace’s face SO MANY TIMES throughout the day. We get after him about it all the time, but it’s almost a subconscious tick. Most of the time, it’s as casual as breathing to Jude. A touch here, a brush there. It can be deliberate at times, too – when it comes to Jett, Jude will pinch his cheeks and scratch his face with his fingernails when he gets angry. It’s the first place Jude goes for affection and affliction.
He’ll touch their faces with his hands, with his forearm, with his cheek, with his mouth, it doesn’t matter.
Take a look at these pictures I took of them the other day. They were supposed to be modeling their Valentine’s gifts from Abba. But I saw one commonality among all the photos. Do you see what I mean?
Ok – face touching or not – I really love this picture of them.
Above, Jude is jutting out his jaw just to maintain contact with Jett’s face. Really.
Totally.
Here is an example of his fixation, bless his heart. We were doing an Awana lesson at home on the verse “I am wonderfully made” from Psalm 139:14. Part of the lesson was for me to ask Jude and Jett why God gave them eyes, ears, legs, etc.. When I asked Jett why God gave him hands he said “to eat food with”. Of course he did. Food is never far from his mind. And when I asked Jude why God gave him hands, he said, “For touching faces.” Wow. I asked him why and he said, “Because they’re so soft!”
Today Jude was hanging around Jace’s swing trying to touch his face. I asked him why he was doing it and he said, “Because I love him.” While it’s hard to argue with that, we need to learn to express it in a more socially acceptable way. And a little less obtrusively for my other sons.
I’ve asked Jude’s preschool teacher if she’s ever noticed him touching the faces of students at preschool, and thankfully she said no.
I hope he grows out of this soon!
Bless his little weirdo heart
I kept expecting the pictures to end…
If I may “weirdo-top” very quickly, I think it might make you feel better:
Judah loves his penis. The other day, he told Will and I, on separate occaisions, that everytime he touches his penis he thinks of babies because he loves them so much.
Ummmm…WHAT?!?!? So, as weird as Jude’s face touching might be as he gets older, at least he won’t be doing anything illegal…
Weirdo-topped, indeed! =) LOL!
Oh My! I’ve been expecting the office to ask me what was going on as I’ve been laughing out loud about this! Well, with him being a genius and all, he probably knows already that it is used for making babies.
Ok Jess wins! Wow, that is so funny and disturbing at the same time!
Andre is the same way, but just with me. At first, it was my ‘elbow pit’…had to be touching it all the time. I even had to roll my sleeves up in the cold weather so he could reach them. Now, it’s my neck. He’s got to be near it when he is even the least bit uncomfortable, nervous, shy, sleepy, …you name it. Gabi was a paci girl, he’s a sick guy. Sounds weird, but I know what you mean. Kinda.
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