strangers

Over the last month Eddie has developed what is labeled as stranger awareness and separation anxiety. Every once in awhile he will start to cry when mommy or daddy leaves the room or goes outside. Today at Whole Foods one of the workers, a hispanic male, started talking to him and he freaked out and started crying. Over the weekend we also discovered that the sight of his Grandpa makes him cry...ok we'd like to think that it was really his low, raspy sore throat voice and not his mere presence, but Mr. Lauer has been known to scare people. It seems like Eddie's stranger anxiety is biased towards any man other than his father. Women don't seem to trigger such a negative response. Maybe because women know how to talk to a baby - the high pitched voice, the big eyes and smile. You ever noticed how men just talk to a baby like a regular kid? They say stuff like "hey little man, how's it going?" There must have been something in the air today, other than humidity that is, because everyone at the grocery store wanted to interact with my little guy and he didn't seem to like it. He was chewing on his toy and drooling so profusely that he got his shirt all slobbered up - it reminded me of when Marty chews her leash when she is nervous. Poor guy.