Monday, January 21, 2008

infant-'stache



babies, at least our babies, have this funny little ridge on their upper lips that is revealed when they make a certain kind of smile.
it's a subtle line across the musculature in their upper lips where a thin john waters-type mustache would go, and that itself would be quite amusing on an infant, but instead they have this adorable little dimple across. it seems to function as a marker of a particular kind of pleased, but not unrestrained, almost a bit smug, happiness for them. eventually, and somewhat sadly, their faces change and it can't be seen anymore. cybele still has it and i love looking at it and making her smile in the right way to see it. see if you can find traces of it in the pictures of her.

2 comments:

James said...

i think it's in the picture below of cybele glowing like angel

bahar said...

ohhhh, james is almost as cute as cybele.