faker

I am a big faker. I am the best trickster that I know. I can get away with it because I am the baby and everyone loves me. It is the most fun game I've discovered so far in life.

I've made it very clear to my parents that I'm not interested in pacifiers. I haven't decided yet if it's the texture, the shape, or what, but my parents have bought just about every different pacifier they could find, and they try every day to get me to take one, but I won't. I like to gnaw on my fist and suck on my knuckles, but just for fun. What do I suck to soothe myself? Mummy's baby finger or Daddy's middle finger.

(I'm well aware that Mummy's baby finger is much smaller than Daddy's middle finger and that Mummy call that "incongruous" but that's part of the fun.)

So here's the trick: when Mummy or Daddy is holding me and letting me suck her/his finger, I relax and look like I'm sleeping. I do this for so long that my parents think I really am sleeping, but as soon as they try to pull the finger out they discover my death-grip on it, and I usually can't resist giving them a little smirk. I sure fool them, it is so much fun!