We were always thankful that Luke didn't put things in his mouth. Tim was a nightmare about putting anything and everything he touched in his mouth from birth until well past two. Not Luke. We put away all the little toys that Tim had when Luke was born, but discovered by six months that we needn't have worried. He just wasn't interested. Little did we know that this was an indication or possibly the cause of an eating disorder that we are only now getting diagnosed and treated. My understanding is that he has sort of the opposite of an oral fixation. Although the specialist told us otherwise, we suspect that being tongue-tied had something to do with it. Today, four days after the operation to free his tongue, he put four small stones in his mouth while on our hike to Horsetooth Falls. He did it deliberately and almost systematically, AND he explored those stones with his tongue and teeth. Along with this, he put Paul's finger in his mouth just before bed time and explored it with his teeth and tongue. We're willing to loose a couple fingers to overzealous biting if he'll continue this. Um, maybe not. We're trying to be cautiously optimistic, but mostly we're over the moon.
