head-butting<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhen he\u2019s standing on the changing table, I have to stay very close to him. I\u2019m well within headbutting range. Even though he\u2019s only tall enough to headbutt my chest, it\u2019s still annoying and has turned the process back into the battle that I so used to dread.<\/p>\n
This new battle has evolved over the past month, however, into something special.<\/p>\n
For the first few weeks, it was a straight out battle: he\u2019d head butt me; I\u2019d try various punishments; he\u2019d head butt me again.<\/p>\n
About a week ago, however, when I started to yell at him for head butting, he leaned forward and kissed me on the cheek.<\/p>\n
I was surprised into sputtering. For the past week, he\u2019s been mixing it up. Each diaper change involved both kisses and head butts. Sometimes he leans forward to head butt me. Sometimes he leans forward to kiss me. It\u2019s all very disconcerting.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, while he was standing on the table getting undressed, he leaned forward and kissed me. No head butting, no fussing. The diaper got changed, and then when he was getting his new clothes on, he reached up to grab my face and pull it down so he could kiss my cheek.<\/p>\n
Now that\u2019s a diaper change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have always had a great deal of difficulty changing N\u2019s diapers. His mom has never had a problem – he just lies there and quietly gurgles – but it\u2019s never been easy for me. In the early days, he\u2019d scream. As soon as he went down on the changing table, he\u2019d scream, kick, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-1O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}