"Ewww"

Audrey is very sensitive when it comes to textures. The word "ewww" flies from her lips more times per day than I care to count. Many people have heard about her first experience with finger paints...she gagged the moment her little finger touched the stuff. For the longest time we thought she didn't like chocolate due to her reaction to her chocolate chip cookie cake on her first birthday. Really, it was the icing that disgusted her so because chocolate chips themselves are one of her favorite "num nums." Mud between her toes or yogurt that has accidentally dropped onto her hand provokes feelings of disgust in my youngest daughter. Recently she had another reaction that I found interesting. While Morgan was finishing up her bath, I held Audrey up to the mirror to look at her reflection. I decided to do one of those experiments that I had read about in college. If you put some sort of mark on a baby's face and then show them a mirror, they will reach for the mirror to try and get it off rather than their own face. Well, the only thing I had was some toothpaste and so I chose to put a tiny green dot of past on Audrey's forehead and hold her to the mirror. I couldn't hold back the chuckle. There was no reaching to get the object off of the baby in the mirror. She couldn't even continue looking in the mirror. Just the sight of the small gooey green dot triggered her gag reflex and my experiment was over.