Her first strange behavior. And it is cute!

Now that Ivy is crawling everywhere, a whole new world of tasty objects is within her grasp…. including toilet paper! This week she seems to have discovered she likes eating paper. All kinds of paper. Pages ripped from the phone book. Sleeves from CD or DVD. And especially toilet paper!

Okay this is cute, but a little weird. I have heard of people eating toilet paper before. Maybe I heard about it on Oprah or something like that. I don’t remember. But it is a behavior called “Pica” which is the desire to eat things that are not food (more info here… Pica ) Well, in all likelihood, Ivy is eating TP just because it is something soft, new, and goes easily into her mouth. When you are 1 year old everything goes in the mouth! So we will probably just have to put a guard over the TP like they have in public bathrooms. Or maybe buy a TP guard that you can get at a Pet Store to keep your cat from unrolling the toilet paper.