My Baby Likes Tags

My daughter is now 6 months old and she loves tags. One day, my sister gave her a little teething toy. It was some kind of squishy/stuffed animal with a plastic bone in it's mouth. Okay, now that I think about it, maybe that "animal" was a dog. Anyway, this dog had many things for my daughter to bite on. The feet, the arms, the ears, and of course, the plastic bone. After all, that's what it was made for. But what is it that she finds interesting? What part of the toy soothes her and makes her stop crying? Yep, the tag. You know, the one that says who made it, where it was made, washing instructions, etc. Yeah, that's the part that she likes to put in her mouth. That's the part that keeps her quiet.

As I sit here and type, my son's Cars pillow is on the ground near us. Again, she goes for the tag.

It's funny how these baby/toddler toys are developed to be the right color, size, and shape to be stimulating and interesting for our little one's eyes and how their texture is made for their little one's touch. And yet, that's not always what grabs their attention.

As I sit here on my living room floor, there are toys scattered about. But what is my daughter's little hands are working on overdrive to grab. What is it she wants? The keys on my laptop! Yes, she wants to type with me. She crawls at top speed toward my laptop and pays the toys no attention whatsoever. If there is something other than my laptop she's interested in, it's not the things she can play with. It's the little piece of candy wrapper rubbish left on the ground by her sisters, or the lone sunflower seed that somehow made it's way from the softball field to my living room floor, or a random piece of plastic who's origin is unknown, or the penny someone dropped under the couch. All things that she really shouldn't be putting in her mouth. That's my daughter, completely uninterested in the items that intellectual baby people somewhere spent hours to develop.