I am babysitting a dear friend’s 10 month old baby boy tonight. Watching this baby grow from a new born to this point where he is on the cusp of being a toddler has been an amazing experience for me. Many of my cousins have children that I have received pictures of frequently, some from birth to adulthood, but seeing it happen so rapidly right in front of my eyes has been incredible.
Something that I have noticed is that babies often smile using their whole face. Their eyes light up, eyebrows raise, mouth opens with glee and they have such enthusiastic open expressions. So, the other day I mentioned to Jedi this observation and went on to ask him why we seem to lose this ability as adults. He looked at me with raised eyebrows and said “This is why” and proceeded to make the most disturbing and frighteningly weird face I have ever seen. His eyes were bugging from his head, his eyebrows were arched in absurd surprise and his mouth had a humongous smile that was supremely creepy in a “clowns-are-cannibals” kind of way.
Yeah, I now understand why grownups limit their smiles to their eyes and mouths.
As a sort of after thought to this whole conversation is this:
We were watching Scrubs last night and noticed the John C. McGinley who plays Dr. Perry Cox sometimes does the whole face smile thing. He does in some respects look like a baby, but mostly it’s just scary.
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