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To find this gross as well as incredibly sweet?

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mrsmalcolmreynolds · 13/07/2014 20:22

DS (13m) has worked out how to give kisses and is practising enthusiastically. This ia obviously very very lovely. However, he insists on doing them on the mouth, which would be fine except they are very open-mouthed and dribbly and after about the third in quick succession tbh I am shuddering a bit.

Am I BU/an unnatural mother? (Don't think I am personally but really interested to know if anyone out there receives these slobbery tokens of love with unalleviated joy!).

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MrsCumbersnatch · 13/07/2014 20:23

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Haggisfish · 13/07/2014 20:25

I don't mind the slobber at all, but I think I'm in the minority.

TheSpottedZebra · 13/07/2014 20:27

Oh, it gets worse.
Wait til he's snotty and comes at you for a kiss...

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mrsmalcolmreynolds · 13/07/2014 20:46

Ah yes, snot, all that was needed for perfection Grin. I do have DD (4.9) as well, but she's always kept her slobber and snot for cheeks (and arms, legs and bellies) and I'm finding the mouth thing makes a surprising difference.

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mrsmalcolmreynolds · 13/07/2014 20:46

Ah yes, snot, all that was needed for perfection Grin. I do have DD (4.9) as well, but she's always kept her slobber and snot for cheeks (and arms, legs and bellies) and I'm finding the mouth thing makes a surprising difference.

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HappyAgainOneDay · 13/07/2014 20:49

Don't you wipe their noses if you think they are snotty?

Dogsmom · 13/07/2014 20:49

My 16 mo DD gives me slobbery/snotty kisses on the lips and I love em! I always say aaah Thank you then slyly wipe them off.

The time will come when she doesn't want to kiss me so I'm making the most of it.

Sparklypants · 13/07/2014 20:54

If saliva makes you shudder then please don't do what I did.

I was playing with DS. I was lying on my back and he was balancing on my feet like an aeroplane. I had my mouth open laughing and he suddenly burped (not surprising considering my feet were on his stomach), the burp was followed by puke....In. My. Mouth.

Sparklypants · 13/07/2014 21:02

Also I think this is totally gross and slightly sweet. DS 2.11 will go up to dd 17 and tell her to touch tongues. She does it too (ewwww)

RubyrooUK · 13/07/2014 21:07

Luckily now DS2 is in the dribbly kiss phase, the person who he most wants to kiss is DS1.

So DS2 is there chasing DS1 around the room as DS1 shouts: "Save me mum. He wants to give me a dribbly baby kiss! Uuuggghhhh."

I just smile sweetly and tell DS1 that he should be grateful his little brother adores him so much. (As I laugh and caress my gorgeously undribbly face.)

CorporateRockWhore · 13/07/2014 21:08

Ahhh those open mouth soggy kisses...I will miss them so so much when they're gone Sad

MostlyMama · 13/07/2014 21:11

Aw, baby DS (14mo) comes at me open-mouthed too. Then I have 3yo DD who always gives me a kiss on either cheek then one on the lips, I am sure some people will find it weird but she has always done mouth kisses :o

Mouthfulofquiz · 13/07/2014 21:18

There is nothing sweeter than a spontaneous dribbly baby kiss! Love em. I had a dribble / houmus / garlic pickle kiss today and it was delicious (from son aged 2!)

ShineSmile · 13/07/2014 21:21

I would love it Smile

onedev · 13/07/2014 21:21

Our open mouth baby kisses are gone now - can't remember when they stopped but it's been a while & the youngest is only 3 - hadn't even realised until this thread!

Sparkly - that is gross - think I would have vomited myself Shock

Icelollycraving · 13/07/2014 21:28

I read the op as 13 not reading the months. I had visions of a hormonal teenager approaching you & was finding it all rather grim!!

AyeWhySWIM · 13/07/2014 21:42

I LOVE the open mouthed baby kisses that in our case always end up sliding down for a bite/suck of the chin. He'll have a go at latching onto anything.

Following on from the vom story - I've been the unwilling recipient of wee in the mouth during a tummy raspberrying session before bath time. Shock

DoJo · 13/07/2014 21:44

I always say 'I'm just going to rub the love in' and give it a quick scrub with my sleeve...

Sparklypants · 13/07/2014 21:52

Aye, that's bloody brilliant! Grin

These are the things that no one tells you before having kids. The things I do or have done, i would NEVER have imagined myself doing before my dc.

CustardOmlet · 13/07/2014 23:04

If I ask my son for a kiss he offers his cheek, my nephew sticks his tongue in my sisters mouth for kisses... I know which I prefer!!!!

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mrsmalcolmreynolds · 13/07/2014 23:13

Thanks all - extra parenting medals go to Aye and Sparkling!

Just to say I do absolutely love that he does it and that he's so focused - a proffered cheek is not acceptable and he'll dodge about for ages looking to get in on the mouth. It's just after three or four immediately after each other I start to get a bit ick. Plus slightly cross - eyed from all the extreme close-up baby action of it all!

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mrsmalcolmreynolds · 13/07/2014 23:14

Sparkly even.

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NormHonal · 13/07/2014 23:21

It's definitely one of those enjoy-it-whilst-it-lasts things. "Enjoy" being the wrong word perhaps! But we will miss them when they're gone.

DS is 3yo and kisses and cuddles already waning a bit, I now have to ask for them, and he doesn't always deliver. Sad

DDs much cuddlier, IME.

PhantomTollbooth · 13/07/2014 23:24

They are very ardent at this age aren't they? Mrs you have made me laugh with your descriptions :). I have just spent a week with my baby niece who deposited a bogey the size of a small hamster on my shoulder after a cuddle.

HicDraconis · 13/07/2014 23:25

Both my DSs are still kissy and cuddly :) DS1 is definitely a cheek kisser at 8, DS2 at 6 is a complicated routine of cheek/cheek/forehead/chin/mouth (which I then have to replicate exactly to be allowed out of the hug... it's amazing how many times I get it wrong :) )

Don't think I'd be overly keen for slobbery kisses, but I was somewhat obsessive about wiping their faces when they were toddly things.