Posted by Jim at May 27th, 2004

Sometime in the last couple months Abby (3 year old) discovered her salivary glands.

Since then she’s been experimenting with them. I often come upon her and realize that she is swishing liquid around in her mouth. There is no cup in sight.

Even worse was discovering an enormous wet spot on one of our chairs. Apparently she does not believe in swallowing.

One last thought on this theme: I picked Abby up from daycare today. As usual, I checked the page on which they chronicle important events of the day. Today they wrote a comment about Abby’s nap. Abby doesn’t actually take naps anymore. She sits quietly on her cot while the other children take naps.

I assume that this is quite boring.

The comment went more or less like this… “During her nap, Abby spit repeatedly over the side of her cot.”

She will get bored with saliva soon, I know, but not soon enough.