Surfergeeks

So, Freya has become a slight pain when it comes to the baby. It’s not that she’s still afraid of the baby or wants to attack him, in fact, quite the opposite. I can barely get Freya to leave Alex’s room. She is quite protective of him and spends most of her time being near him, I’m sure it’s to make sure he’s okay.

Unfortunately, she has decided that Alex’s toys are hers to play with. If first started with his rattles. She’s tried to pick them up off of the coffee table so she can bat them around the floor. I’ve quickly smacked her for that and told her it’s not a cat toy. Fortunately, Alex isn’t putting things in his mouth yet, so I can easily wash the rattles and give them back to Alex.

Well, last night while Rob and I were watching TV, the cat come over to the couch and starts meowing. I look down and she has one of the zebra shoes in her mouth (these are from the zoo, if you want to see a pic of them, check the gallery). Freya wants to play fetch with it, like it was her baby (one of her cat nip filled toys). Now, I can admit that to a cat, that shoe may look like her baby and she could mistake it for something she’s allowed to play with. So I take the shoe away from her, tell her it’s not a cat toy and hide it.

Now comes the kicker. Last night at 3 AM, Alex woke up for another feeding. So I take him out of the crib, pull out his soother and place it on the end table, sit down and pop the bottle in his mouth and start feeding. Once done that, I get up to change his diaper. Finish that and get ready to put him back to bed. Well, in order to calm him I need the soother, so I go to the table.

What the…! The soother is gone. So I look around to see if it fell off, but no that’s not the case because there walking away is Freya and she has the soother in her mouth!! Yup, Freya now thinks the soothers are her toys too. I shout at her and take it away, but I really doubt she understands. I’m going to sanitize it, but what’s to stop Freya from taking his other soothers. Especially since, he doesn’t keep them in his mouth all the time and they have a tendancy to fall out. Oh well, I think Freya will just have to see the wrong end of the water bottle more often.