Well at least this year I know exactly what to get my husband for his birthday – a hearing aid! The one that only increases the volume of the baby’s cry. The man is on-call all the time and will jump the minute his work phone barely buzzes, but the baby? I am starting to believe that he finds the sound of baby screaming soothing.
“When did you take this?” – Dennis after I showed him this picture:
What can I tell you – selective hearing is a gift. If I want help I know I will have to either physically shake him, yell louder than Leila or just flash my boobs in his general direction. I have to say though that once I have his attention he will always come and help. I do think, however, that a snail could easily run circles around him, but fortunately for Dennis he is more pleasant to cuddle with. Well, that and he pays our electricity bill.
I always wonder about how the selective hearing thing works–because I can never NOT hear a baby screaming–but I admire those who have the gift.
Honestly, I sometimes even hear the baby screaming even when she is not… it’s just that after a loooong day it starts ringing in your ears….
This totally happens to me! I’ll start out of a sound sleep only to discover it was wind, or a cat that I heard and not the baby.
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It’s God’s gift for all men!
My girls are both pretty easy going except in the evening… Isabel gets clingy and super fussy and Avery is grumpy because its her bed time… Hubs apparently can’t hear me struggling with TWO screaming babies at the same time… I’ll come downstairs after getting Avery in bed and hes just relaxing in the recliner
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It is not just for crying. I hear this a lot when my daughter wants to tell her dad something from ACROSS.THE.DINNER.TABLE: Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Mommy, Daddy is not listening.
Right?! And then my father use to tell me to use my “inside voice” when I talk to him. He would NEVER HEAR my inside voice!
That’s pretty much the face/reaction we get from HOT, too, when we put her on one of those ride along toys Leila is on in that pic.
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She actually LOVES it… but can’t push herself forward yet, so anytime we stop pushing she SCREAMS… I have to hide it now (a gift from Clara, btw… she obviously hates me)
Hayley loves hers while being pushed too!
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Haha! Classic!! You really do capture some great moments!
and ryn: Ahhh, we’ll see. We’re kind of trying to decide if 2010 or 2011 will be ‘Year of the Baby’!
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My husband has the same.damn.problem. Although at least I have the ability to sleep through his on-call phone so there is a trade off.
Me: Man! The baby last night. I could have tossed him out the window after the 3rd wake up.
Him: He was up? Really? You’d think I would have heard him since my agency phone rang, like 6 times.
Me: It rang?
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Oh, men and their jerky talent of selective hearing! My husband literally SNORES through little H’s terror fits in the middle of the night, and that’s just the tip of iceberg. At least you’re lucky enough to still be able to use your boobs as an attention-getter….I’ve been whipping them out in this house so frequently thanks to breastfeeding that my husband barely blinks when they come flying out. I think sometimes they even put him to sleep.
M
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are you kidding? I would be happy if someone just paid the electric bill. Or how about a dinner? is that too much to ask?
YOur comment on my post today was hilarious, BTW
Daiva!!! In the picture I thought for sure that was my husband in the background working on his computer. I swear we have the same picture on our computer. Men and their selective hearing. They are all the same breed.
LOVE the picture…you are on your toes with that camera, girl! It wouldn’t have been the same if you had just TOLD your husband!
My husband never hears anything! How can you not hear twins screaming like hyenas? I think he secretly has a pair of earplugs in his ears at all times. Now, I could be wrong…but I’m right.
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha
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Oh God, yes! You pretty much described my husband!
This is an amazing picture! I can completely relate. The baby is screaming, and you’re like “Come on dude! You know you hear her!”
I wish I could play dumb.
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Selective vision works wonders for them as well. Dust? Crumbs? Stray socks? HA
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To be honest though, when Peter’s home (and awake) he tends to Alexa far more than I.
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Ha! this photo could be a stock photo for mommybloggers everywhere. Men are gifted with the ability to ignore the babies and we are gifted with the ability to ignore the men. It’s a trade off.
You know selective hearing is easy to fake. Almost as easy as faking an orgasm. Try it. The first one I mean. Or the second. I’m going away now.
Hi there. I found your blog through scary mommy’s blogroll. Great blog!
My husband also suffers from selective hearing. It’s an awful condition! But this picture is AMAZING. It is almost too good to be true!
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