Apple Drink

Yesterday was a long day. The night before I had seen Inception and didn't get home till super late for a work night, but it was totally worth it. BEST.MOVIE.EVER. After work I had a blogger event for the other site I blog for ChicagoNow: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/stephanie-eats-chicago/

Finally I headed home around 7:30pm and got on the 22 Clark bus going North. I have previously expressed my disconnect for babies on the bus. Alaina expressed it best the other day: "Children should be seen and not heard". Let me tell you I have never seen more Mommy-to-Baby PDA in my life! Mommy (as she refered to herself as more than several times) practically ate baby's face the entire ride home screaming out for the entire bus to hear "Mommy just lovvveeeessss your kisses!" Ok I have to admit the baby was pretty cute, it actually reminded me of a small tree monkey, complete with tie-dye pouch it was placed in on Mommy's tummy.

Sometimes I am unable to control my laughter in awkward situations. This was one of those times. Mommy started talking about how baby wanted "apple drink", no not apple juice but "apple drink" then she started talking about "water drink". Water is water, it isn't "water drink". If that couldn't have been more obnoxious I think she used "apple drink" a total of 15 times, no joke, I was very relieved when she announced to the bus it was gone. There is where I couldn't hold it in any longer. Mommy broke out the baby sign language. Baby sign language is this new way of Mommy-Baby communication that many yuppies tend to enjoy. My little cousins were trained in baby sign language as infants and so I know some of the signs combined with my knowledge of "Meet the Fockers". I lost it when the kid started signing for milk, Mommy goes "ohhhhh noooo we must wait until we get home for that" and then she repeats the milk sign. The girl next to me clearly knew why I lost it and I explained it had been a long day. She replies "I take the North Ave bus every morning, it's a real treat". I liked her.

The epitome of the Mommy-Baby trip happened when a strange looking man took two pine-cones from his pocket and handed them to baby and then exited the bus. My question is, don't pine cones usually occur in the fall when the trees are shedding? Where did this strange man get these mysterious pine cones?