Monkey See Monkey Do

Baby sticking out her tongue

A few days ago in the park, our baby fell, and got a mouth-full of sand. She was not hurt. My husband, who was with her at the time, decided to teach her a little trick to clean out her mouth. He showed her how to fill her mouth with water from her water bottle, then to spit. It worked. Within a few seconds, she had cleaned all of the sand out of her mouth. When they returned home from the park, my husband described the sand-in-the mouth incident, and I knew we were in trouble.

Now each time she drinks water, once she has had her fill, she leans forward, and spits on the ground. And then she laughs hysterically. For now I have decided that the best way to extinguish this behaviour is to ignore it. Only time will tell if this is a good strategy.

In other news, the Brat's sleep schedule is on course. In my last post, I wrote about how we had decided to discontinue her middle-of-the-night feed. She had slept through the night on the third try. Since publishing that post, she returned to her once-nightly wake-ups. But we persisted. And for three nights in a row this week, she made it through the night without waking up. More than one night in a row for the first time in her life! We were very proud...then the inevitable happened, and cold # 10 halted her streak. She must have woken up a dozen times last night. And so too was our bliss aborted...