Funny faces

It turns out that our daughters like to make weird faces. Who doesn’t? And I’m fine with it, as long as they don’t scare me.

Rosie has just started experimenting with a crazy lip-biting fish-face, which she accompanies with smacking sounds and is slightly alarming. She is also working on sticking her tongue out and wiggling it around, which is much more traditional. At least I haven’t been actually frightened by her faces, as I was with Lucy.

When Lucy was about a year old, she started doing this crazy shivery face thing that really freaked me out. The first time, I thought she was having a seizure and subconsciously reached way back into my Catholic roots and crossed myself, praying that she was okay. It just turned out to be a weird face. We even took a video of it once, so we could show Dr. Minkus, but I don’t think we ever did show it to him, because we knew what he would say in his wisdom: “She’s just making a weird face. Don’t worry about it.”