Baby peek-a-boob ... er, I mean boo

Gotcha with the post title, huh?  Thing is, what I'm about to relate isn't that far off.  Now that Andrew is slightly over 4 months old, he has decided that we just aren't giving him enough attention.  I mean, who doesn't literally stick their foot in their mouth when given the cold shoulder treatment?  Amazing as this feat is (no pun intended), baby Andrew has an even better trick in store.

First, some background.  Since babies are notoriously selective about what they would consider funny, I've had to resort to the time-tested activity of peek-a-boo to make him laugh.  Over and over again.  Cheesy wide open mouth and eyes and everything. But hey, it works and I'm a sucker for repetition.

Anyway, the other day, Jennie and I were preparing to herd the kids upstairs for bedtime.  Alyssa had already raced up the steps (no doubt so that she could prepare her stalling tactics), so I picked up Andrew and mentally prepared myself for the 30 minute "calming down" routine.  Only, I looked down to see that Andrew was acting ... hungry.  As usual, I started joking to Jennie that he was going to be severely disappointed, but then I noticed something different about this situation: he wasn't trying to eat, he was hiding.

Yes, hiding.  What I had mistaken for dinner time behavior was actually the beginning of several minutes of baby peek-a-boo.  He would hide his face in my chest, then whip it around towards us with wide open eyes and a huge smile on his face, then whip it back into my chest.  The more we laughed, the bigger his smile got.  Such an attention monger.  Of course, by the time Jennie was able to get the camera over to me to record these antics, he had grown bored and quit. 

Oh well, maybe next time.  Uh, and sorry for the long hibernation. Maybe I'll actually start posting again ...