Merlin is short for Mermaid Gremlin

And there are all these reports on how new slang is and how to understand it and getting it wrong. BUT 2001 GOT ME

Little redfaced infants with their faces scrunched up half the time

Babies with big fat pudgy cheeks that take up half their face

Wrinkly little goblin-looking babies with hands and feet that are a little too big for the rest of them because they haven’t had time to fill out yet

Babies with big, big eyes

Chunky babies with all the rubber-band creases on their arms and legs

Babies with lots of hair

Babies with no hair

All babies

Babies who hug your leg with grubby hands until you pick them up

Babies who yell to say hello when they see you

Babies who wave emphatically at planes and helicopters (and insist you join them*)

“Babies” (vampire in training?) who chomp down on your shoulder when you carry them (this happened today and the baby’s teeth were so sharp I got tears in my eyes but it was still so funny)

Babies who have one word they use for everything

Babies who are in awe of other babies

Babies who run to the window when they hear the trash truck or mail truck coming down the street and wave at it until it is out of sight

Babies who blow raspberries on any surface in front of them

Babies crawling away as soon as you set them on the ground, finding exactly what you didn't want them to grab (wires, obviously)

Babies who clap when you say "yay!"

Babies who wave for every form of communication, not just a greeting

Babies that give you a kiss on the cheek, but also a kiss to pages in their favorite book, but also deciding one page does not deserve kiss (and the kiss is more like a lick)

Babies that stare at you with a stern, serious look when you are unfamiliar to them

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this