# Pictures of babies with goop all over their faces

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 4, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715 "2009-06-04T17:23:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/21 "2009-06-04T22:35:12Z")

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I’ve got lots of pictures of my kids trying to learn to eat. They’re usually pretty careful, but still manage to get food on their chins, in their nostrils, in their diapers, in their hair, and sometimes in their ears.

But often, “pictures of babies with goop all over their faces” have nothing to do with food. Sometimes a violent sneeze merits a camera before a tissue. And you think pudding on a kid’s face is gross!

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/22 "2009-06-04T22:49:38Z")

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It depends. It’s somewhat amazing how they can get it _everywhere_. My daughter managed to slather herself in banana from her hair to her toes. I have a video of it. She’s conked out in the high chair, and I didn’t know how to clean her without waking her up.

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/23 "2009-06-04T23:24:51Z")

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> [@Malthus](#):
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> The baby is way cute, but definitely looks like she is planning evil. 😃

Yeah, well, some geriatric loon just squished this weird sticky stuff all over her face. Of _course_ she’s planning evil!

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**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/24 "2009-06-05T00:42:03Z")

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> [@Max\_Torque](#):
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> [angel](http://pics.livejournal.com/maxtorque/pic/000125ph)?

While this is one of **the** most adorable child pics I’ve seen of anyone I’ve been acquainted with (apart from my own goddaughter, of course), might I suggest a [couple](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_p5YxXqqs_UU/Se-7DbRuHeI/AAAAAAAAAVs/fJmS2fExH-k/s320/OMG+Iz+Fulla+Starz!!!.jpg) of [captions](http://www.catwack.com/pics/94.jpg)?

😃

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**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/25 "2009-06-05T06:48:03Z")

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We have a picture of my little sister covered in chocolate mousse, grinning from ear to ear. I secretly think she looks adorable, but I’ve never mentioned this to her - it would detract from all the teasing she gets from me about it.

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/26 "2009-06-05T12:22:10Z")

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Sorry to all the parents here, but add me to the list that finds this absolutely disgusting. Nothing cute about it at all.

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/27 "2009-06-05T13:04:56Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> It depends. It’s somewhat amazing how they can get it _everywhere_. My daughter managed to slather herself in banana from her hair to her toes. I have a video of it. She’s conked out in the high chair, and I didn’t know how to clean her without waking her up.

My kid nodded out in his plate of macaroni and cheese. Just went face down in it.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/28 "2009-06-05T14:08:30Z")

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> [@Max\_Torque](#):
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> What? [This](http://pics.livejournal.com/maxtorque/pic/0001000t) [little](http://pics.livejournal.com/maxtorque/pic/00011web) [angel](http://pics.livejournal.com/maxtorque/pic/000125ph)? Nah, no evil. She [shares](http://pics.livejournal.com/maxtorque/pic/00013sqb) and everything.
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> (you brought this on yourself; Proud Daddy will take advantage of any opportunity to show off pictures)

I shall retaliate in kind. 😃

Here is one with face smeared with sunscreen. Check out that smile:

[![](https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/malthusmalthus/baby/Dsc01191.jpg) ](https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/malthusmalthus/baby/Dsc01191.jpg)

And here is my son, the budding naturalist, discovering a monarch butterfly caterpiller:

[![](https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/malthusmalthus/baby/Carl.jpg) ](https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/malthusmalthus/baby/Carl.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/29 "2009-06-05T15:00:38Z")

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You have to remember that parents get desensitized to the gross factor after seeing it several times a day every day.

The only picture like that I took of my son was after I made beets for him the first time. It looked like an 8-month old had slaughtered and eaten a goat.

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**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-babies-with-goop-all-over-their-faces/498715/30 "2009-06-05T15:10:25Z")

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In general, kids with schmutz on their faces? Meh. My kid, with schmutz on his face? Sometimes adorable. [Here’s one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/annsy/2773811178/in/set-72157606795243502/) (and [here’s another](http://www.flickr.com/photos/annsy/2772972143/in/set-72157606512370905/)) from his first birthday (he messed himself up without help from us, once we finally convinced him to try one little bite of the cupcake). And sometimes you take a picture because you’re surprised at just how much food got on their little faces – like [this one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/annsy/3344797436/) (which is funny mainly because it got on his face because he was shoving the mac & cheese in his piehole so quickly). And [this one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/annsy/2810955347/) is funny because of the look on his face.

But then there are the tons of times we don’t take pictures of him with stuff on his face, because it’s just not that interesting. And we need to get him cleaned up so we can move on to the next thing, etc.

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