Aaron has apologized profusely for passing the clothes-chewing gene to Zeke. He says it just might be payback for how much he irritated his own mother.
Zeke has chewed on his crib blankets for a while now; it was soothing to a kid who wouldn't take a binky and preferred to go to sleep in Mom or Dad's arms with his bottle in his mouth. This summer he took up chewing on his collars, both of jackets and 'church shirts' (polos). And what do you do - it's not like we can take his shirt away from him ... although he has worn fewer polos in attempt to corral the clothes chewing to a Sunday-only activity. He has since extended eligibility for chewing to long sleeves and pants (usually when they are not on his body, but sometimes when they are). In the past couple of days he unfortunately has also taken to chewing tshirt collars - he really is his father's son.
And, as we're finding out, it's not just what he happens to be wearing at the time. He has tried to chew on my shirts and tried once or twice to get my jacket collar into my mouth for me. Also recently, Zeke was helping load wet clothes into the dryer and I saw him take a quick nibble at his denim shorts before he threw them in. Later, while folding the laundry, he was trying to make a full meal of them. Mmmm, tasty.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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3 comments:
That's funny, I remember several of my brothers doing that, James in particular, good luck with that one. William's is nail biting and nose picking...yuck!!
Ha ha! I wonder if it's a boy thing. I remember that a lot of boys in my elementary classes would suck on their shirt collars too.
That is funny! Jack chews his clothes, but hasn't done any damage yet.... maybe I should try to nip it in the bud.
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