Tonight when I was giving J her bath, she started eating the bubbles. I mean like devouring them ravenously. Sure, she didn’t eat her dinner so may have been hungry for a snack, but soap?
It’s not the first time she’s eaten soap bubbles (or other weird, non-food substances for that matter). If the bath water is particularly bubbly, she’ll cup the bubbles in her hands, gleefully flinging them around the tub. After several minutes of just touching and flinging her bubbles, she’ll decide to shove a fistful of them into her mouth.
You’d think that soap bubbles would be bitter and poor-tasting. I’m assuming that they are, but I’m honestly not about to taste them. I’m not that interested in knowing… So does she just really like bitter, disgusting flavors? Perhaps… she has chewed on a lemon before, and this week at Red Lobster she actually ate part of an onion on her own volition.
Maybe she’s trying to tell me she disapproves of the meals I prepare? I think they’re usually ok, but maybe they are not meeting the tot’s standards. She barely touched her dinner plate today, except for grabbing fistfuls of chicken to throw to the dogs. She tasted a green bean, but it was promptly regurgitated, then ended up a green slimy blob on her shirt for me to clean up.
