I had heard this before but it took my Mom telling me this a couple days ago that made me really shocked to think about and I started to laugh.
So here is what happened a couple days ago:
My Mom and I were sitting in my kitchen and eating some lunch. Sean really likes cashews so she brought some over in a bag. As she ate her lunch, she got a few out and began to eat them. They smelled so good to me and I asked her if I could have 10 of them. I held out my right hand and kind of cupped it so I would be able to hold the nuts and eat them with my left hand because I am left-handed.
As she counted out the nuts and put them in my hand, at probably around seven or eight, they began to fall out of my hand. She was disgusted as they bounced off of the floor and she shook her head and said under her breath in disgust, “You and those, ‘Baby hands!’ “
I started to laugh because I began to think about where I have heard that before. If I put all of these incidences in order, the first person to tell me that I had really small hands was my first wheelchair tech, Ty. Adam Schlitt had to hold my hands as Jesse stretched me and he commented on how small they were.
One time, in 2015, Mike Morphitt first told me that I had, “Baby hands” because he had to adjust the straps on a medicine ball that I was holding and working with. Sean and I received mugs as a gift and we were sitting at my table eating dinner. We both had something to drink and I told him that I didn’t think that I particularly liked these mugs because the handle was so big. He looked at me holding it and was shocked that my entire four fingers could fit easily inside of the handle. He only had two in the handle.
Also, my sister-in-law, Melissa, sells Paparazzi jewelry and I have bought some pieces from her. I found out in December I that I fit into and can wear little girl bracelets:
My Mom purchased a mug for me in the beginning of February and her hand does not fit in the handle but she thought that mine would. It does! So, thinking about her comment made me laugh because I recently bought another, “Little Girl” bracelet from Melissa not too long ago. She tried it on and it DID NOT fit and she laughed when I put it on with ease.
My Mom is not as much of a firm believer in the, “5 second rule” as I am but I still think that whole exchange was really funny because I have heard that from many different people that I have, “Baby hands.” It’s a, “Rios” thing because I remember my grandma having small hands and my aunt Crissy has small hands as well so, we ALL have, “Baby hands!”