Hug Twice

Alexa likes to chew on things.  Well, not just things.  Everything.  She is seriously orally-fixated and will shove anything and everything in her mouth.  For being so interested in chewing, you’d think that at 16 months she would have more than 4 teeth, but I digress.

One of her very favorite things to chew on is cardboard.  Board books, boxes, any thing she can find that is cardboard, she will gnaw on, and if she gnaws a piece off, she’ll very carefully scoop it out of her mouth and drop it on the floor.  Little wet cardboard piles… yum.   We of course do not let her chew randomly on things, but sometimes she gets away with it.  She’ll even rip parts off of bigger books to find the cardboard part she can chew on.  Niiiiiice.

CJ is not on board with this phenomenon at all.  It is really funny to watch a three year old try to explain to a one year old that she doesn’t want to chew on a board book, but try he does.  He tells her no, says “Yuck” and makes gagging noises, but she blissfully ignores him.  So yesterday he brought out the big guns.

“Alexa, that not cookie good!”

She still ignored him, but I know where his food priorities lie. 

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