The Bellagio Effect

[billroper]

We'd been warned that, if we had a little boy, we would have to watch out for interesting fountain effects at diaper-changing time. Happily, this isn't so much of a problem with a little girl.

There is, however, more than one way for a baby to produce a fountain. And if baby has drunk too much formula too fast and is lying on her back contemplating the nature of existence, there's the danger that there will be a fountain of warm formula leaping straight up in the air and landing everywhere it can reach.

Mostly, this was on Katie's face, which looked like she'd been painted to work as a mime. And it turns out that partially processed formula is even stickier than fresh formula, as daisy_knotwise found as she was washing it out of Katie's eyelashes.

But it was very impressive. Now if we can just get her to do it in time to the music...

Comments

[mdlbear]

Wait til you get to pureed peas.

And chocolate. Beware of chocolate. Especially in the car, in summer.

You'd be hard pressed to outdo the "mentos" people

[capplor.livejournal.com]

unless you get a whole "Las Madres" chapter together.

Then there are the adventures with the other end, especially after solids start. I really should have taken a picture of the fluorescent turquoise stools.

Re: You'd be hard pressed to outdo the "mentos" people

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

oh yes; and grapette yields day-glo green.
Totally wierded Morris out one time.

Re: You'd be hard pressed to outdo the "mentos" people

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Fluorescent Blue?

Day-glo green?

What in Sam-Hill additives are lurking in the treats we're supposed to be feeding to little ones?

Doesn't matter. Ask about beets.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Good, healthy, natural, and responsible for thousands of new-mother near-coronaries.

Re: Doesn't matter. Ask about beets.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Okay, makes sense. But at least Borsht Red is a color found in nature, for example, my vegetable garden.

The blue and the green sound like stuff I find under the fluorescent microscope, and once it gets there, ingesting it is just a nasty idea.

GFP, a.k.a. Green Fluorescent Protein, is found naturally only in a ceratin jellyfish. My fellow scientists xox'ed the gene, put it in other critters such as lab mice and transparent zebrafish embryoes, and now when you shine a certain wavelength of UV light, the protein (made in any of the cells of the animal close enough to the surface to see the light) shines back green.
Neat! Cute! Scientifically Useful! (as a marker) But Appetizing? no.

Re: You'd be hard pressed to outdo the "mentos" people

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Food color dyes that don't metabolize, apparently.
I've heard similar tales about whatever gets used on St. Pat's day to turn the beer green.

Sash? Or slash?

[jslove.livejournal.com]

There is yet another orifice.

While one's baby is still on the all-Mommy's-milk diet, the waste product is not particularly smelly. It can, however, be bright (day-glow) yellow (it floresces, really), soft, and under fairly high pressure. My daughter once spray-painted a brilliant stripe of partially-processed cheese (so to speak) across me from left shoulder to right waist, and both my arms, too. Fortunately, it was easy to clean from me, my clothes, my shoes, the dining room table (where I was changing her) and the carpeted floor.

Age-appropriate graffiti? You decide. This is a slight variation on the truism that idiot-proof is impossible when the idiots are so creative.

I'd hate to see a serious attempt at a warning label for a child. NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE! is probably how it would begin. For the rest of the packaging, our children are delivered to/by us with pre-expired warranties, so that would be omitted, but both the list of service centers and the license would be too long to include in printed form.