That's Entertainment

Emme has started chewing many things lately. It doesn't seem to be chewing for teething as much as chewing for entertainment. She spends a lot of time upstairs with me in my sewing room and she has discovered my stabilizer. That is a lightweight backing that I put on the back of fabric for machine embroidery to create a solid base for designs. It comes rolled on tubes, kind of like paper towels. I store the rolls in a wine rack on the bottom shelf of a book case in my sewing room and recently Emme has discovered it and cannot leave it alone. I was working on the computer and looked over at Emme who looked like she was unrolling a roll of toilet paper. Upon closer inspection, she had a roll of stabilizer; she had pulled the elastic band off of it and she was unrolling the stabilizer. I took it away from her and told her "Leave it." I put it back on the rack and Emme went right to the rack and pulled off the stabilizer again. I solved that problem by putting that roll of stabilizer on my desk and a few minutes later, she was pulling another roll out of the rack. I don't what the fascination is, but we continue to have a war over rolls of stabilizer.

Emme comes into the bathroom with me while I take my shower and Emme has decided that a good game is to pull the individual strings out of the bath mat. Before I got out of the shower, she had created a one inch square bald spot on the rug.

Emme has found out what fun it is to disassemble a silk plant. On the landing on the stairs, we have a basket of flowers we purchased in Williamsburg. Emme has discovered how entertaining it is to pull off the blossoms one at a time.

Emme has discovered the speaker wire in the dining room under the plant stand and during dinner chewed through it completely.

Up to this point, we have not had any trouble with Emme chewing anything other than her toys and bones. I think this a case of figuring out what is hers and what is not. So far, she hasn't gotten the boundaries straight. She thinks it all is hers to chew.