Snogger!!

Alby has started giving kisses and I’m totally smitten with this new skill.  I’ve no idea where this skill and understanding suddenly sprung up from but the other night when Alby was giving Percy the obligatory goodnight bash I said “give him a kiss Alby” and to my utter surprise he did. 

Don’t get me wrong, Alby gets a good dose of kisses from me and Percy, but I’ve never put a word to the action so that he knew what I was after and responded makes him, once again, a genius in my eyes.  (Either that or this is yet another display of my parents superior skills in child rearing.)

Now, taking after his namesake Albert Laurence is a snogger and bless him if kissing Percy goodnight didn’t end up with him receiving a nice lick across the face from a stinky bullhound.  I was slightly mortified.  Alby was thrilled.  Percy was nonplussed.

Wondering if Alby’s kisses are reserved just for Percy I asked him yesterday to give me a kiss and my little heart warmed when I got a kiss back.  Since then I confess there has been a lot of kissing taking place in the Beebe household – even baby got a snogging before bed tonight (well, his photo did but that’s the best we can manage at the moment). 

I do feel that it is necessary to explain that when I say “kiss” I’m not completely referring to what you or I would normally term a kiss.  An Alby kiss is more an open mouthed press, but I’ll take it.