Sneaky Camel Kisses.

Just stood with Dec & Nonie in the rain waiting for the bus.

I often use this time to get free kisses from the kids.

Today was no different. But I needed a strategy because they were focused on re-routing water through tiny gravel "streams".

I said to the kids that that my kisses are sneaky because they think they are getting just one, but really - I sneak about 3 or 4 in.

Who wants a sneaky kiss?

They lined up.

I demoed my kissing strategy on Nonie first.

She laughed.

Dec stood close, one kiss - then 2,3,4 and he lunged backward laughing too.

Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play.

My kisses got faster the more I "practiced".

Then Dec cried out

Let me try!

He came in with the slowest stickiest kisses right on my cheek.

There was nothing sneaky about them

but they were every bit awesome.

His hot giggling breath on my face mixed with his long, drawn out, super sticky kiss -

Is this what getting kissed by a camel feels like?

Nonie copied Dec on my other cheek.

For a few moments my cheeks were sprinkled with sweet sticky kisses from both kids

in the rain

waiting for the bus.

I bet my neighbors were jealous.

So my sneaky kissing strategy worked -

my cheeks are still sticky and

my heart is still warm.

Bitten Lips & Tongues

Dec got a lesson from Daddy this evening about how to kiss Nonie. "Give her quick kisses." The guidelines were expanded to include: No lingering or laughing during the kiss.

Kissing lessons were prompted by the following scene:

Dec was swaddled in a blanket on the couch. Nonie was playing with a fuzzy soccer ball on the floor. She looked very approachable...playful...darn cute...kissable. He watched her for a few seconds, but then couldn't resist her any longer.

He swooped in for a kiss but lingered too long. I was half paying attention to the exchange but became completely absorbed in it when all of a sudden Dec lept from the floor and let out a roar of a sob....

"Waaaaahhhhhhhhhh!" He threw himself back onto the couch.

"Nonie just bit my lip."

I sat here, biting my tongue, wondering why he would willingly put his lip in her mouth and how he could possibly think she wouldn't bite it.

Then I figured that sassy Miss Chicklets was just getting her big bro back for the time he practiced his "Jackson Pollock painting techniques" on her and not the lovely plain paper in front of him. She's a smart Chicklet that Miss Nonie.