This past weekend we went to the Skinny Cow Perfect Cup event downtown Houston. I am so impressed with companies that really invest in the consumers how are ultimately the ones who buy their products. Many do not care or do anything, even refuse to send out coupons.
Skinny Cow put on a great event, they had, food, free ice cream, free candy bars, free t-shirt, free bra fitting, free bra, wine, door prizes and a great swag bag. This event was free to the public. Skinny Cow also gives back to the community by providing clothing, training and confidence to women who are interviewing and out of work.
Since we were already half way to the beach we decided to just make it a day, take the family and go to the beach. If you can only imagine how silly poor Paul and the kids looked at a bra fitting event. My poor family, they are good sports!
After we made it out of the Skinny Cow event, 10 lbs heavier from all the ice cream, we headed down to Galveston for pizza and swimming. My husband had a mortgage office in Galveston a few years ago, (before both hurricanes!) and we spent a lot of time down there. We found the best pizza place EVER. It is a total hole in the wall called Gino’s, they make the best pizza and have an awesome thick crust.
The best part is that while you are waiting for your pizza, the kids get mini balls of dough to play with and pretend to make their own pizza. Or in the case of the 1 year old, lets play “how much dough can I eat before my parents can dig it out of my mouth”!
Sitting on the beach at Galveston I realized that I have failed my children. All they have really needed in life to make them happy is a spoon and some sand.
Forget the fancy educational toys and the nice electronics. Just give them wet salty sand.
I have also failed my 7th child. My kids are all brilliant and above average in just about everything. Just ask me 🙂 They learn quickly and never have to be told or taught something twice.
I saw something this weekend that shook me as a parent and made me reconsider my parenting abilities.
My 13 month old spends about 90% of her awake hours thinking this one thought:
“Can this fit in my mouth?”
Nothing escapes the taste test from this child.
As we sat down on the sand she quickly, before I could stop her, shoved a handful of salty wet sand in her mouth. She was mad! I quickly washed her off and rinsed out her mouth and told her, “no, yucky!” We went back to play. As soon as she sat down, she stuck another hand full of sand in her mouth, and was weirdly surprised that it tasted bad, as if she had not done the very same thing minutes ago. I washed her off again, and as I was sticking my sandals on, she shoved another hand full in her mouth.
I stared making excuses for her, was she hungry, lacking a mineral in her diet or just deciding if she liked the texture of wet or dry sand? Who knows? But for 4 hours and 30 minutes of the 4 hours and 35 minutes we were there, the child continued to try and eat sand and then get mad that it tasted nasty.
I found myself hoping that she stayed cute, as I do not see a college education in her future.
Oh, I am totally kidding, she is a completely normal 13 month old and will grow out of it! We are still hoping the 14 year old will stop eating sand, at least by the time he goes to college! 🙂
Congratulations if you have made it this far! You deserve to have a chance to win a bra! One reader will win a certificate to Macy’s for a Olga brand bra from Skinny Cow. All you need to do is leave a comment letting us if your children have ever eaten anything weird. If you do not have kids, what is something that your parents said you ate as a child?!
** This giveaway is from me, I am giving you my voucher I got on Saturday. You need to have a Macy’s to redeem it though. All these comments and opinions are my own. Skinny Cow could care less if I mentioned them or not, I was just impressed with their event! Gino’s could also care less about me or my blog, they just have good pizza and I wanted to let you know!
** Giveaway ends Wednesday night at 9pm. My kids will pick a winner from a hat, or if we can’t find one, I will use random.org. Good Luck!
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My 6 year old didn’t realize there was plastic on the back of fruit roll ups, so after eating half the roll up(with the plastic attached) I realized what was going on……Not a good bathroom situation!!!!lol
Just this weekend we were at a family wedding in Chicago, and leave it to my almost 1 year old, she found anything and everything she could put in her mouth – flowers from the flower pots, waterballoons after a waterballoon fight, rocks from the driveway, candy wrappers that fell – you name it, we have probably tried to eat it…this weekend! 🙂
My daughter put a bug in her mouth. I was scared to death and then quickly got over it and got it out.
I don’t have kids, but I’ve been told that one Christmas I stuffed my mouth full of those old school ornament hooks. No injuries!! And another time, I picked up a HUGE spider and stuffed it in my mouth before my screaming mother could stop me!!
It must be a 13 month old thing. I too have one of those and he too eats everything. Just this a.m. he had a tantrum because I took a crayons out if his mouth. The weirdest, no GROSSEST thing he ever ate was…A WATER BUG!! We were outside and I watched him pick it up from across the yard, and as I am running telling him to put it down, as I couldn’t get there fast enough, my 3 year old took it from him and brought it to me headless. I vowed never again to judge another parent. Please don’t report me. I feed him food. I swear.
My sons ate dirt when they were little! I’m so proud 😉
LOL I have twins, youd think they would tell each other in their twin talk when someting is gross.
She ate cat poop and got mad at me for not letting her eat more.
He ate the cat food then got mad that I let him eat it.
Does dipping their toothbrushes in the toliet count as tasting? Its pretty gross. LOL
AND I NEED a new bra 🙂
Since my baby is only 6 months old, he hasn’t started shoveling unidentified objects into his mouth yet! His daddy, on the other hand, loved Gravy Train as a baby (blah)!
my 21 month old little girl thinks crayons (or “colors”, as she calls them) are a super tasty treat. i’ve even caught her trying to “eat” her stickers. hmmm??? my mom told me when i was a little under 2, i ate some ants i found crawling around. yummy. hehehehe. love your family pics! 🙂
My daughter Lindsey when she was young put everything in her mouth too, I was so careful to make sure the floor and carpet was free of anything, but needlessly to say she ate something and I didn’t know till I changed her diaper. what we discovered was a coin, YES a coin, to be exact it was a dime. We were terrified that we not only didn’t witness this nor did we even see that she was fumbling with something in her little mouth. At that moment my husband said Cha- Ching!!! We have a baby that dispensing coins. LOL!!!!
My husband and I recently took our two kids to the pet store to search for a new pet. While browsing at the chameleons, my three year old baby girl popped over from the next isle with what appeared to be a cookie. I thought nothing of and figured my husband probably gave it to her. Once I caught a glimpse of him and my son on the opposite end of the store, I asked her where she had gotten the cookies. She responded look, “Look mommy free cookies!” My mouth dropped as she pointed to the dog biscuits……..
Well, I had her put what remained of the biscuit back and yelled to the other two in my bunch to meet us outside. We all laughed so hard as she repeating, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Shhh. I’m sorry.” Lol She recovered fine and has not grown a tail 🙂
I hate to say it but my son, when smaller thank heavens, use to put his lil fingers in his diaper and then lick em like he just had fried chicken….unfortunatly it wasn’t chicken 🙁 it was poo. Took forever to get him to quit!
that it’s too funny, i have a 4 year old and she just eats thing that she likes that way they smell and she is funny about textures but the weirdest thing that she likes to eat it’s raw oyster she just loves them with a little lemon, personally i dont even like the way they smell and i dont know how she eats them if they have a weird texture and personally they don not smell good 🙂
I can’t think of anything right off hand that my kids have eaten, but does a fruit loop up the nose count? My daughter did this one day while we were in the car and we had to pull over and hold one side of her nose down so she could blow it out. She thought it was hilarious!
My daughter when she was around 13 or so months or more would take the bowl with cat food in it and sit down in front of the tv eating it like it was popcorn while watching her Baby Einsteins.
My son once ate part of a #2 pencil before I noticed him chewing on it. BAD MOTHER
Of course, I freaked out and immediately took him to the pediatrician’s office. I should have realized that the pencil is actually made of graphite, so no health issues at all.
my 6 year old usually likes to smell and taste everything … but when she was younger she would lick everything… from hand rails to shoes… it was totally gross and I am embarrassed to admit it… but I want a bra dang it……..lol
Children are so precious! At that age it seems to be completely normal to taste any and everything…. The mouth has to approve first 🙂 My nephew went from boogies to even tasting from his diaper what looked like a milk dud candy (Eww) My son who is now 3 used to put his little toes in his mouth! hehe I saved those pictures!!!
My mother was washing the dishes while I was playing on the kitchen floor. She turned around to scrub a very dirty pan and when she looked back I was chewing on something. She rinsed her hands, walked over, and saw me chewing on a COCKROACH! I had half of a bitten-in-half cockroach in my hand and the rest in my mouth. Eww.
WOW! I think you win! 🙂 You probably thought it was a fig!
i think i just threw up in my mouth a little. that is GROSS!!!
Well hmm what havent my daughters tried to eat, lol! Well the weirdest one would have to be that each of them have gone through a stage where they think they can eat through their noses. Almost had some scary situations there, but now I know to watch for it, lol! I’ve seen chicken, crayons, dirt, etc all up the nose!
I always love your family outting stories. How ever I do not have kids but when i was younger I was a butter theif. Anytime i was alone in the kitchen, I would take the biggest bite out of the stick of butter. If mom was cooking and had butter on the counter, i was determined to get my share, as soon as she stepped out of the kitchen, there I would go, stealing butter.
Oh man! I think if I could get away with it I might do it, I love butter 🙂 Just kidding!
My 16-month-old tried to eat his sandal today! He has also eaten homemade play doh and crayons. =)
If it sat still for more than 10 seconds, my daughter tried to eat it. Bugs, dirt, mulch, flowers, cat litter, even the cat’s tail once. She had to make 2 trips to the ER for her “eating habit”. She decided to eat “Mother In law” tongue the night that Ike came in. Poor baby was in pain and 150 later to go to a quick care clinic she was told to just rest. She also ate 3 of my husbands pills (thyroid and muscle relaxer) and spent several hours in the hospital making sure she was ok. Lucky she grew out of it quickly or I would have been in the loony bin. (She has been 5 times in 5 years)
Good luck with little bit, I think she will outgrow it before college!
We have only one kid – he’s 8 months and so far hasn’t put too many crazy things in his mouth!!
My niece ate cat food, though, and promptly threw up. I don’t think she’ll be doing that again for a while!! 🙂
When my now teenage son was about 5, he ate one of those bath tablets that turn the bathwater cool colors. It was Christmas morning, he was opening his stocking and was sure they were sweet tarts, after all they were small, round and colorful. He foamed at mouth!!!
My daughter was 10 months when she decided to get a seed, that came from our tree in the front yard, lodged in her throat. She turned blue and somehow the seed ended up in her lungs. two weeks before Christmas and many visits to the Drs. and hospital, they finally took it out of her lungs.
Oh my gosh! I am glad she is ok, that is scary.
When my son was between 1 and 2 yrs. old he used to like to eat Rolie Polies (the little bugs that you touch and roll up) Any chance he got to out to go outside he was in the grass looking for them and would just pop them in his mouth like it was candy. The first time i saw him doing it i freaked out of course as any first time mom would, but as he continued to do it and i gave up having to fighting and struggle with him and to get them out of his mouth. He didn’t get sick after the first couples of times he ate them so i figured what the heck let ’em at them. He is now 21 yrs old and 6ft tall so they must have carried some sort of protein and vitamins that were good for hm. 🙂 lol
My daughter ate a crusty, old, nasty, dried out sandwich she found while at the San Antonio Zoo. No idea what kind it was or how long it’d been there, but she ate it. (or ate a few bites before we saw her doing it) She also used to eat handfuls of dirt and mulch and that took me a long time to stop.
My son ate a small plastic pirate toy and we had no idea until minutes later, he came to tell me using his best 2 yr old lingo. And yes it’s true……what goes in must come out. Ouch!
My 2 year old (at the time) decided she wasn’t going to eat her peanuts. Instead, when I wasn’t looking, she shoved them up her nose. Needless to say, I couldn’t get them out. Yes, we took a trip to the emergency room. (It was a Sunday afternoon & the doctor’s office was closed.)
Even with insurance, those were still some expensive peanuts!
I used to love to eat butter straight out of the tub.
When I was 2 years old I ate poisonous plants in our front yard multiple times.
When my oldest was a baby he chewed on parts of a broken Christmas ornament before we realized what he was doing. I felt like the worst parent ever! My other child likes to eat play doh but I don’t think that is weird since every child does it at some point
So I am a new mother of twins at that. I love them soooo much and they are my whole world. My twins are both teething so as you can imagine everything is going right to the mouth. I think my son may be a cannibal because his teething toy of choice is my face!!! He gets really anxious grabbs my face and gets a mouth full of nose, chin, and my cheeks. On occasion he enjoys my ears and hair as well. He is only six months so we will see if his TASTE changes in the future. I could use a nice bra that doesn’t unclip to feed babies-lol!!!!
Nothing too dramatic I suppose– used to enjoy making mud pies and decorating them with grass. We lived in NY at the time and the grass wasn’t dry and crunchy like the TX grass. Maybe that’s why I love salad now as an adult. Ha!
Fourth of July weekend we took our son for his first trip to the beach. I didn’t realize what he was eating until some chicks walked by calling him cute and asking if that sand tasted good. He kept going back for more. He even found ways to crawl himself to the water. We have also caught him eating a few rollie pollies. They end up in our apartment all the time and have found their shell on his tongue. 14 months old can’t wait to see what he eats next.
I can’t think of anything my babies have eaten, but my mom has a picture of my sister when she was a year and a half with a mouth full of soil from a planter and me (2 1/2 years) pointing and laughing at her. We still bring this up as black mail to her… 🙂
Fantastic stories ladies! 🙂
I have 8.5 yr old twins(b/g) and a 6.5 yr old boy. The 8 1/2 year old is the one who is famous for his digestive delusions! He once took TWO bites of deodorant!!!! Another time it was a fistful of Vaseline! What the heck was going on with that – I have no idea. The funniest part is what they told my husband when he called poison control… “uh… well, it won’t hurt him a bit – it’s harmless however, you might be changing A LOT of diapers in a few hours!
My favorite thing he tried to eat was when he was 3 or so and was only napping every other day. However… I insisted on everyone in their own space for quiet time everyday or Mommy goes to the padded room place. He’d been in his room talking and playing quietly as I started to doze for a nap when I heard him, hewlp, it’s stwuck. hewlp, it’s stuck! It was a ROCK! It was slightly wedged and thank heavens it was too big to swallow – but that also meant it was rather difficult to get out! I was torn between fear and hysterical laughter!
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When my daughter was 6 months old we were at my mother in laws house and she has huge windows in the family room that go down almost to the floor. My daughter could pull her self up to her knees using the window sill and would stick her fingers in the corners and cracks of where the glass meets the wood. She sucked on her fingers as a baby.. so you could imagine where I am going with this. When we finally realized what was going on she had black gunk smeared all over her cheeks and lips. I opened her mouth and there was dead bug in there. I almost cried I was so mortified. Well my daughter is now 3 and she still has this habit of sucking her fingers after she digs them somewhere. So here she goes sitting on the couch, lost in thought, picking her nose and sticking her finger in her mouth. Yuck! I don’t get why kids love the nasty stuff like boogers but won’t have anything to do with green veggies. LOL!
Well my little one has an older sister who loves lip gloss. You know the ones that smell and taste like skittles, Dr Pepper, Chocolate, etc.. Well we knew that my little one likes the way they taste because we would put some on her lips and she would lick it off. Well both of my girls like those lolly pop push pop things and ask for them all the time. Well needless to say my little one though one day that the lip gloss was a push pop. I found her with her finger at the bottom of it licking it. She looked at me and I looked at her and she said “Look pop” I ltook it away and asked her where she had gotten it. Ohh no was my response when I walked into my oldest daughters room. Nearly 20 lip glosses all over the floor, all but 1 open and some bitten, and some wet from licking it, and to my suprise 2 were completely missing. Ughh she smelt good but yuck!
I did that when I was younger haha! Ate a whole tube of lip gloss. They shouldn’t make them so delicious!
This is a bit gross.. I was watching my niece and went to my friend’s house. Her mom had just had hemmorhoid surgery and had a pack of suppositories sitting on the coffee table. I looked at her RIGHT as she was biting into the foil! Thankfully I got it out of her mouth before she swallowed it, but she learned that they definitely don’t taste very good 🙂
Well my 6 year old eats his toenails, by bitting them off. My two year old eats dog food and cat food. He sits by their dish and feeds them some and then eats some for hisself.
My kiddos haven’t eaten anything strange that I’ve noticed.
My aunt and uncle used to hide in the closet to eat dog food. And my aunt’s son swallowed a shiny oval rock about an inch long. When my aunt called the doctor she was told “what goes in will come out.” Sure enough a few days later my cousin heard a clank on the toilet bowl. Glad I wasn’t around because they some how dug it out as a souvenir!
I could sure use a bra. I just got through breastfeeding for a year!
Wow, am enjoying reading everyones comments. Lol! I have 4 kiddos ages, 13…11…4…2. And still out of all them none of them has been able to out do the oldest. We got a beautiful black poodle when Adri was about, oh wow now i think about it i believe the same age as your daughter. Lol! Of course we were told that she was potty trained and all, well guess what?! Not so much! One Saturday it was a quiet relaxing day at the house I was doing something (probably mama thing) and hubby was on the couch watching tv. I remember seeing Adri run up to her dad and trying to show him something, and then I remember him having a “I smell a dirty diaper look on him”, but then she gave him a grin and from ear to ear mouth full of poop. And no not hers but yeah our well trained dog. And what was worse is that it was smeared all along down the hall way. At the end, baby girl learned never to do that again, and after daddy cleaned her up, I got a brand new toothbrush. I just love the memories. Lol!
We took our newborn to Galveston for Memorial Day. Since we didn’t let her sit in the sand, she didn’t get a chance to eat the sand-yet. Anyway, my now 5 month old loves to eat her feet. My poor baby hasn’t sat in a pile of sand, dirt, or anything fun since her birth. I hope she doesn’t become a germaphobe!
My children, naturally, never ate anything weird, ha ha but my youngest brother used to eat dog treats. They were these chocolate looking discs and he and Mutley shared a can.
My boys LOVE Flying fish eggs–Fish Roe or Tobiko it is bright orange/red caviar! They are ages 7 and 4!
*PS Looks like you took a picture of my mom and her friend! They are in the 1st picture of the post.
I have a soon-to-be 1-year-old (in two days!) who wants to eat everything, too! He, too, will try something and then put it back in his mouth even though he knows it tastes bad! My three daughters never did that, though. He is the only one. He bites off erasers from pencils, puts pennies in his mouth and also eats food like there is no tomorrow! I love him! 🙂
I have to pull the grapes off of the stems from now on because my two year old daughter loves grapes…stems and all. I won’t tell you how I know, but it’s super gross!
My one year old at dog food at 9 months
I’d have to say that the most interesting thing my son LOVES to eat is tabasco sause. We used to put it on his fingers to try and get him to stop sucking on them, but it back-fired big time!! He would just lick it off and ask for more. Now he can’t get enough, and puts it on everything from chicken to pancakes. But, I don’t think that’s near as bad as what I tried to eat… When I was little, my grandfather liked to smoke cigars. He had smoked about half of one, put it out, and left it in the ashtray on the coffee table. Apparently, I had been studying it for a while and had been told not to touch it (I’m sure that was the first mistake). When my grandmother left the room to check on lunch she heard me start coughing. I had picked up the cigar and put it in my mouth, ashes first. YUCK!!! Needless to say, I haven’t touched anything like that since!! Lesson learned!
Great stories everyone! I read your post and my mind started to wander because it’s hard to narrow it to one story. But, it being a Macy’s card, I will stick to a Macy’s story. I was in Macy’s with my two year old “spirited 2nd child” just trying to check out and get home. She was doing circles around the counter. She came around just like before but was chewing something. I didn’t give her anything! When I asked what she was chewing she said bubbledum, like I was the idiot. I ran over and insisted she spit it out. Disgusting! She had found some gum and thought it was a long lost treasure. Sad but true. 🙂 She’s my little weird one and that’s why I love her!
My son, who will be 1 on Friday, has been known to eat several tasty bugs. By far the most interesting and slightly scary was a DEAD WASP! Yikes!!!! I guess he though spiders and june bugs weren’t good enough.
My daughter enjoys dog food. Which seems natural considering at 9 months my husband broke his arm trying to crawl down some stairs to the cat food!
My 6 yr old once ate the corn husk from a tamale. I forgot to mention that he was supposed to take it off.
When my now 18mnth old was about 12mnths, I caught her with dog bowl in her hand and dog food in her mouth…yuk. Our two dogs were just sitting next to her waiting their turn. She was actually sharing with them. It was completely adorable. But now the dogs have to eat when she is at nap or in her high chair.
my 19 month old also puts everything in her mouth she loves green playdough the grossest thing i think she eats though is she has a little teaset outside and last time it rained used the spoon to get a huge spoonful of mud and promptly ate the mud off the spoon and wanted more!!
There are few things my boys have not tried to eat!
The most recent thing my almost 2 year old keeps trying to put in his mouth is tampons (unopened)! He keeps sneaking into my bathroom and getting what he calls “Popsicles”
This is something my mother said I ate as a child. Growing up we raised Siberian Huskies. She said I would push the dogs out of their bowls and eat their food 🙂 I have definatly grown out of this so I think you daughter will grow out of eating sand 🙂
Tiffany please don’t enter me in the drawing since I already have the voucher!! But I wanted to say how cute your story is and thanks for sharing it!! I got a kick out of alot of the other stories that have been posted 2 I needed a few good laughs today =]
My oldest who is now 7 would put anything shiny in her mouth. From gum wrapers to coins even glitter. We always said she was just like a little monkey that would go for the shiny things. And to this day she is ALL girl and ALL about the BLING! hehe
Well I didn’t eat it..But when my brother was little he ate a couple of bird eggs. I guess they taste like regular eggs! My mom freaked.
My daughter and I were just talking about this yesterday. I don’t remember her doing this, but I LOVED me some dirt as a baby- or so I’ve heard.
My first son was about 8 months old when he picked up a hairy cookie off the floor of a mall playground and stuck it in his mouth before I could stop him. I don’t think he swallowed any, but I was completely mortified!
One morning (when my daughter was only 1 1/2) I went in to wake her. Not only was she already awake but she had her diaper off and was sucking on it! EWWWW! I got her all cleaned up (mouth rinsed out) and gave her something yummy to eat. She’s 13 and hasn’t done it again so I apparently my gross out reaction was enough to convince her to not do it again 🙂
My kid eats sand too. And crayons. And play doh..
Adorable pictures!
My 22 month old son as well has eaten sand BUT it was dry and had rocks/pebbles in it. I thought I was going to have a heartattack. Working in the ER for some years I thought of him swallowing it and it messing his insides up (I worked in addmissions).
He has also gotten into his desitin cream and boudreaux’s paste. And my green highlighter. And more recently my pick marker.
Posion control is in my contact list needless to say.
I believe he has even “tasted” our dog, who is a beagle. you know when the little ones learn to kiss they do the mouth open and basicly just touch their lips to whatever, that is what he does.
My 18-month old loves to chew on those plastic outlet covers. I no longer question how he got them off or why he thinks those are the most awesome teethers ever invented.
My Mom swears that I ate her class ring when I was a child. On Christmas Eve a few years ago, we decided to take a break from all the prep cooking for the next day and run to DQ for dinner. My 7 month-old was hungry and fussy, so I grabbed a banana for him to eat. Since the DQ was only around the corner from the house and since he was so fussy, I just handed him the banana to play with until we got there. I was super surprised when I removed him from his car seat 2 minutes later upon arrival and discovered that 1/2 of the banana (peel and all!) had been eaten. That boy was hungry!!
oh my, what haven’t my children eaten? The oldest liked drinking sea water. My 5 1/2 LOVED dirt/ sand when she was little. She ate handfulls every time we went to the beach. My youngest also enjoyed sand/ dirt but the oddest thing eaten came from a child not of my own. I babysat a little girl who ate ANYTHING! She ate the wood of the crib, she scraped the paint off our old fashioned jack-in-the box (with her teeth), wooden blocks, books and the plastic play food!
My son loves to eat his clothing, he’s 4 and even does it now. I don’t know if he’s sucking or chewing, but take your eyes off him and some type of material is in his mouth!
While I do not have children, I claim to have a 2 year old who is my dog, Bella:) As she believes she is a human, I felt this would qualify:) Bella has as many toys as many children her age and knows all of her toys by name and color. However, if you give her a tennis ball (or anything made of tennis ball material) she will eat it. No questions, no hesitation – tennis ball fuzz and plastic equals instant destruction and possible ingestion. It has come to the point like with many children, she is not allowed to leave the room with a tennis ball type toy to attempt and prevent any ingestion. Destruction however is not preventable:)
Here’s what it is…she didn’t realize her powers of transforming disgusting and otherwise inedibles to edibles were dulled by the salty water. If she weren’t brillant, she would have shrugged it off as disgusting, and went on her way. Her persistence only proves her brillance. Not only was she trying to figure out how the high content of salt in the water (along with other unmentionable debris) was dulling her magical powers, but she was counting the number of times you would tell her how “yucky” it was or how many times you would clean her up. And if she succeeded in getting both parents + sibilings…Muahaahaa! That’s just good smarts and good times right there!
That was funny!!
A few months ago I pour some sprite -from a can- in my son’s cup. My husband was in the backyard repairing the lawn mower, then he came in the house and took the can and put the gas from the machine in the can.
By that time, the child had finished his drink and was looking for more. So he saw the can outside and drank directly from it. I did not notice that. Then he came to me and said…Mom, that Sprite is too spicy. In my mind I am like-what is he talking about??
OMG….As soon as I realized what exactly happened….I was so worried and felt so bad. He did not have any reactions. Thanks God!!
We took my grandson to the beach when he was one and he ate sand the same way. We kept cleaning and he kept eating. His diaper was full of sand the next time we changed him. I know ewww, but he just turned 4 and no damage done, and he stopped eating sand if that makes you feel any better.
BTW: did you notice how she was looking at you in the picture? She was already hatching her evil plan!
When my son was about a year and a half old he ate a small jingle bell. Anyone care to guess how I discovered this? Mother of the year right here, folks!
My teething 16 month old puts it all in too. This morning the Wii remote, yesterday she found a glop of mud I carried in from our trip picking in the garden (did a smell test to make sure it was mud). At the beach, yep tried the sand and into the eyes as well. My 6 year old is very oral (as I say) and had a soda can top in her mouth the other day. Really??!! My first put nothing in her mouth…Utopia.
I used to eat raw butter off the kitchen table in globs…..
I can’t think of anything weird my kids have eaten, but when I was a baby I know I chewed on a worm that my grandpa brought in on his shoe. 🙂 YUCK!
I love your story! Just an hour ago, my 22month old girl was tasting her sister’s oil paint color. At least seems ok for me that she put red on her lips, not black:-)
Not long ago when she was at your baby girl’s age, she tried many wierd things picked from floor. I can’t remember the exact. Till today, one thing she gets mad if not letting her trying is beer and wine! (We’re very occasional alchohol drinkers, who knows where she gets that from)
What’s ginos address? we r going next week and would love to check them out! My 5 year old still puts stuff in her mouth and my 2 year old likes to eat shoes. i guess she thinks its ok because the dog does it.
My teething 16 month old puts it all in her mouth too. This morning it was the Wii remote, yesterday a glob of mud I brought in from the garden picking (had to do a smell test to make sure it was mud). At the beach, yep she tried the sand and got it in her eyes too. The other day my 6 year old who is also very oral (as I say) had a soda tab in her mouth. Really??!! My first never put anything in her mouth…Utopia.
Oh the joys of parenthood! I remember my firstborn, who is now 12, would chew on dead bugs. I would spot her on occasion walking around with a spider leg handing out of her mouth. It grossed me out beyond belief. By the time number 4 arrived, I wasn’t as freaked out. The more children you have, the less you freak out about things like that. It must be inherited though, when I was little I used to eat sugar ants with a peach soda.
As a kid i told my sister it was ok to eat chapstick. She loved bubblegum flavor and anything pink so I would literally feed her my mom’s chapstick brand cherry chaptick and giggle. I’m sure to this day she suffers from some chapstick related intestinal blockage!
I have 6 kids, and while Im positive they have all eaten something gross in their lifetimes, I cant think of any of them! (now, ask me what they have put up their noses and I have a story for you LOL). I will say.. my 18 yr old eats kiwis.. skin and all! and that grosses me out. I dont know where he got it from, but no one else in the family eats the hairy skin! blech.
I went to the event, too, so I don’t need to enter the contest. But I wanted to say that I lived in Galveston before the hurricane and LOVE Gino’s! Their bread sticks and lasagna are some of the best! We now live about 15 miles north of Galveston but we take the kids to the beach a couple times a month and either eat at Michaels Burger or Gino’s. Yum!
Also, I just recently introduced scrapple to my Houston native husband. I am from the Eastern shore Maryland and moved to Houston several years ago. In my hometown they have this breakfast food called scrapple and you kind of fry it like pan sausage so I made some (suprisingly my daughter found some at HEB in the freezer section I was shocked its very hard ot find) and he loved it. My daughter begs me for it all the time now that we found a store that sells it.
As a child in pre-school, they told us that we were going to dig for worms and eat them. I apparently took this to heart and didn’t realize the “worm” that we were to eat was a fudgesicle! Of course this encourged my parents to tell everyone including my children. To date, my 12 year has ate 2 crickets and a mosquite, the 10 year old tried a cricket, and the 6 year old gets mad at any one who won’t share a worm with her or eat her bug stew that not only does she make daily but has to have a sample of….yummmy!!
I have three kids and they have ate there far share of weird things.. My oldest son ate dog food and cat food. Which luckily it was only twice. My middle child has ate bugs, dirt, chalk, anything she can get her hands on. And it’s like she knows not to eat it I think she just like to see what we will say. And our youngest is only 3 months so we will have to just see what he is interested in.
i was wondering how your little mary poppins was growing! she looks adorable! the picture our son reminded me of mine when we took them to the beach and he fell in love with the sand 🙂 he didn’t eat it though.. lol
The first time we took my daughter (now a freshman at TAMU) to Galveston, she shoved a huge fistfull of wet sand in her mouth and smiled! Gross! Oh well. My mom said I ate a roach when I was her age. How nasty is that???
While I was looking over a menu at a restaurant, my then 3-yr old daughter found something to entertain herself. I saw her chewing something. I asked her what it was, she said “gum.” I looked at my husband in horror asking if he’d given it to her. He didn’t. She said she’d gotten it from under the table! Yuk!!!
I used to teach kindergarten and one year my ENTIRE class was obsessed with eating sticky tack. Yes…. that thick rubbery blue stuff you hang posters on the wall with. It was so bad. They would steal it from behind posters when I wasn’t looking and I’d catch them with huge gobbers of it in their mouths. My posters were constantly on the floor.
hahahaha, steal it? yes…eat it? wow
My mom said I used to eat matches. I did this until she told me a fire would burn in my stomach if I did not stop. I still remember how much I liked the taste.
My 15 month old had also discovered that sand does not taste good, yet he also keeps trying. anything and everything goes straight to his mouth including his brother and sisters limbs when they don’t share lol!!
My 16 year old, when he was 18 months old, was visiting Grandma and Grandpa for the day while mommy & daddy had a day out from baby. Grandparents are awesome, don’t get me wrong, but they aren’t as attentive as parents of toddlers would love them to be. We got a call from them about an hour after we left. Apparently, our little angel found Grandpa’s Mancala game (the one with all the pretty polished rocks that are used as pieces) and found the entire lot of them very tasty! There are about 35 rocks in that game and my son ate all of them but 3 before Grandma caught him!
We took him to the ER (this was my 1st child and have since learned not to take kids to the ER unless something is badly damaged) and they did an Xray to confirm that yes, there were stones in his system. They sent me home and told me to watch is stools over the next 2 days to be sure they all pass safely. When we told the worried Grandparents that he was fine and would pass them within a couple of days, guess what Grandpa said? Would we please get his game pieces back to him…..and sterilized please? OMG. Seriously? So for the next 3 days, I sifted through diaper, after diaper, of baby crap looking and counting the mancala rocks! So disgusting! All pieces passed safely and I gave them back to Grandpa, clean and in a zip lock bag. Apparently he was joking when he said it, so he was shocked and laughed when I handed him back all his rocks. All 32 of them.
My son still finds that story hilarious and I am guessing sometime in the future, we will be recounting it to his girlfriends, then wife and then my grandchildren. 🙂
Oh this is the best!! I ahve tears running down my face!
Both of my boys love the tofu chunks out of hot and sour soup from pei wie. They do not like any other tofu. I think this is strange!
Funny you should mention kids eating weird things. I just walked in my house to discover that one of our dogs pooped on the floor, unfortunately my 17 month old nephew beat me to the discovery and thought that it would be best if he put some in his mouth. He amazes me more and more everyday : / I really hope they do grow out of it at some point. Haha
My daughter who is 19 months old has eaten or at least put everything in sight in her mouth. she has eaten the fallen food especially cherios and other random food that falls in the high chair and on the floor when i sweep. as i go to get the dustpan she runs in and picks the cheerios or what ever of her snack have fallen and eats them. and no she does not eat a darn thing if i put in a bowl in her high chair…only if she finds it on the floor. ugh.
My mom still makes fun of me because I loved to eat butter as a child. I would even go so far as to steal the butter bowl and hid under the bed, eating it with my fingers. It sounds so gross now!
I did the same thing! When my mom and I would bake for the Holidays. If she left the room to go attend to the laundry, instead of me diving into the bowl of the cookie dough I’d go for the butter tub! LOL She’d come back and there’d be little finger marks in the butter
I just wanted to write that I loved reading your story. 🙂 It made me smile. I don’t wish to participate in this one, I simply enjoyed the story.
Both of my kids tried to eat the dogs food and couldn’t understand why the dog would bark and snap at them:) Both of my children loved to suck on lemons and limes. They would pucker up and then immediately go back for another bite.
I read your blog every day, and I love all of your stories. I would love to win the voucher, too! A weird thing I ate when I was little would be the wrapper of a cupcake. I think I just got too excited!
@ JT funny I ate them too! It was something about those old school ones they kinda melted in our mouths..
Yes Tiffany they really do out grow it!
I can’t began to tell you how many buckets of sand my 7 children have eaten over the years, the first poopy diaper you see with sea shells in it is terrifying! (Dr. just said “it’s part of living in Florida) After many trips to the ER to retrieve coins, small toys, and other swallowed objects, I thought I’d seen it all. Then my youngest came along. She would pull the glass ornaments off the Christmas tree and eat them. After I scolded my oldest son and all his friends for laughing about it and thinking it was cool, I rushed her to the Dr., only to be told that it would pass.
I haven’t been to Gino’s, but that sounds good! My mom swears that I used to go around the house and dig up the dirt from the house plants. She says that to keep me away, she had to put them on high shelves so that I wouldn’t shove dirt in my mouth, haha.
My 19 month old will eat anything. If you tell her no, she looks you straight in the eye and licks whatever is in her hand. She really likes to “help” me sweep after meals. 4 out of 5 times she’s chewing on the gross dustpan by the time I’m done sweeping… The strangest thing I ever ate, actually drank, when I was a kid was nail polish.
HAHA I have a 12 month old that would be all over that sand. The oddest thing that one of kids have eaten was paper. When my son Zander was a toddler he ate everything in site…come to think of it he still does:D
I remember I would eat clover leaves when i was little, and also the honie suckle flowers. Weird – I know.
My kids would eat anything! The worst was when my husband let my son drink out of the dog bowl and then posted a picture of it on FB while I was out shopping! Ugh!
Hi Tiffany ,
I always enjoy reading about your adventures, I don’t have children yet but I remember I was about 3 or4 and loved to eat the pond’s cream in hand fulls I just enjoy the flavor or the blue one.
I still love scrambled eggs with ketchup – YUMMMMMMMM
That’s a normal thing in TX!!
When I was little I ate a marble. My sister teased me for years. She called me a marble eater. My oldest son ate a quarter he was little. My youngest son loved dog food. He would eat dog food till he was almost 4 years old. He drove me insane getting into the dog food.
I used to sneak butter from the fridge and my mother thought I was crazy haha My youngest seems to think that play-doh looks good enough to try each color haha
One of my girls ate a bottle full of plus iron vitamins when she was 2. Big sister who was busy and bothered by her sister while playing Frogger opened it for her. (She had no clue they were bad for her, she was 6) and NO the child proof bottle did not keep the 6 year old from opening it. Those bottles are adult proof really. We spent the night in the ER needless to say. Many years later, my 3 girls are teenagers…YES poor me and my poor younger son and hubby. Hormones are nuts around here….and bras….gosh they get taken all the time. They steal mine then try to say I put it in their basket NOT !!! So, we could really really use a new one 🙂 Thanks for sharing. That is very very nice of you no matter who wins!!
I loved to eat chalk pieces when I was a kid..But no longer like it.. 🙁
My kids never really ate weird things, unless you count oysters, Brussels sprouts, liver and gross pickeled pigs feet. We actually were stopped in the grocery store because an older gentleman actually overheard my son asking for eggplant and Brussels sprouts for dinner!
My daughter likes to eat peanut butter, jelly, turkey, and cheese sandwiches (yes, all on one sandwich). She is so picky that if she is willing to eat it I am willing to make it…..lol
My 16 month old will eat anything and everything. Lately his favorite “food of choice” has been crayons, especially the kind you get from a restaurant. 🙂
Not to worry!! I’m a therapist for young children…sand eating is totally developmentally appropriate! 🙂
My youngest son used to eat dirt!! It was terrible! My husband is a farmer, and he had to hide his work boots because my son would get them and start eating any dirt that might be stuck to the bottom. You can imagine what else would sometimes be on them!! Whenever we went to my MIL, she had to put the garden shoes she kept on the back porch away because he would always go right to them to get a little snack. I finally took him to the doctor, and it turned out that he was anemic, and graving something in the dirt! Made me feel like a terrible mother. He was the picture of health, happy and chubby, so I didn’t have a clue.
Both my husband and daughter eat dog biscuits. Not very often, but enough to make me wonder….
Oh my goodness…I would almost eat salty sand to win one of these contests. hehe
(But Macy’s is super exciting!) Thanks for giving me a laugh this morning. I think she will meet one my children at her ‘school.’ lol
My son tried to eat a rock. He was playing outside and I noticed he was really working on something in his mouth and I scooped out his mouth to find a rock. Boy, was he mad to that I wouldn’t let him eat it.
I loved to eat mayo sandwiches. Yes, bread and mayo only, so gross I know. My older sister still loves to tell people about this.
When both of my girls were less than two years old, they both ate handfulls of sand at the beach. Neither one of then seemed to mind it much! My youngest daughter tried to eat a dead beetle that happened to get into our home. I didn’t realize what she had in her mouth until I heard her trying to crunch on the dead bug. She was only about 9 months old at the time, and I was able to dig it out of her mouth in one piece. :o)
God morning, My son drank baby oil. I recently had a baby girl and my son would help with the diaper changing. He would get all that is needed to change a daper for me. Later that day he revisited the diaper station and took some baby oil to his room. There he was sitting on the top bunk drenched in baby oil. I tought he only wore it but the evidence was in the pooh. This is how I looked. :-0
My dog threw up in our entry way recently and we didn’t know it. My 13 month old was crawling arround on the floor playing and ended up eating some before we saw it and scooped him up. It almost made us sick thinking about it!
I drank my mom’s Chanel #5 as a little one! My 16 month old puts EVERYTHING in his mouth and likes to try and eat the dog’s food.
At 18 months my now 9 year old daughter got a hold of a friends purse (who for what ever reason, had left it in her room) at nap time. She dug through the whole purse finding a full pack of big red gum, ate about 5 pieces including some wrappers, she also found some teeth whiting gel that she tasted (luckily the friend said it was pretty much gone), she also found some lip gloss that she tried out and continued to get all over her crib and had all around her face and cloths. On a side note she also redecorated her crib with pads and tampons. It was so scary not knowing exactly how much she had eaten and what was an “OK” amount for an 18 month old to consume (LOL) and yet so funny!!
I have two kids. My son will eat everything and anything with ketchup, His even tried ketchup with ice cream…Yuck! He even has ketchup on his turkey sandwich…he loves ketchup. When my daughter was just starting to eat real people food, she would grab lemon slices and just naw on them. She would make a funny face and seemed to not like, but she kept going back. For awhile, everytime we went out to dinner, we ask for lemon slices because she loved them and kept her happy.
My mom always tells me that when I was a child I would eat dog jerky. THey would have to hide it from me. Now I dont remember the dog that much because I was really young, but I do remember it was HUGE! I wonder if he let me eat his jerky to fatten me up so he could eat me…lol
Ants. My son has been know to sneak a few for protein every now and then lol. Gives me the heebee geebies!
I wish my kids would eat something weird!!! They are picky picky picky!
My parents told me that one morning when they went to wake me up, I was attempting (and failing) to eat my stuffed rabbits ears.
My nickname as a child was “trash picker” because apparently I enjoyed pulling things out of the trash can and putting the items in my mouth. Thank god I grew out of that nasty habit!!
Back in the day, and by that I mean the 1960s, kids had white school paste on the desk and it was a delicacy! We used to lick it off the lid when the teacher was at the black board. Now the blackboard was …. !! (Anybody else remember?) My kids didn’t eat anything weird but one day our son stuck a battery down the back of his diaper and I couldn’t figure out if he’d digested it. The wrapper was intact so I guessed NOT. Hang in there, they will all be fine! xoxo
YUMMM!! I ate plenty of school glue in my days!!
My crib apparently used to be by the bookshelves and I would pull down books and eat the pages – apparently even their bible!
Ooohhh yes–we lived in NC right on the beach when my oldest was born and she did *exactly* the same thing with the sand…except she seemed to enjoy it and would try to sneak it as a baby…ay yi yi, Haha 😀
My almost 10 month old daughter just tried to eat a coupon that I got in the mail from Toys ‘R’ Us!
I don’t have kids (yet) but as a child I used to eat dirt. My sister always made fun of me but I liked the taste. Now, even I think that was weird.
My mom said when I was younger I would eat really hot salsa or jalapeno peppers whenever I would get the chance. I can’t think of anything more interesting right now.
I used to “eat” and still do, my finger nails. It’s a terrible, terrible habit!
My youngest 18mths is like that too, he constantly puts things in his mouth. I’ve found random half eaten crayons and wonder how he got it let along ate half of it before I could see him?? He will also take a bite of something and if he doesn’t like it, take it out of his mouth and hand it to someone, then promptly put another piece in his mouth. Lather,rinse repeat?? LOL
Hoping I get in in time. I’m on CST… and not sure what time zone you are… My 2 year old eats sand each time we are at the beach too 🙂
I know the contest is over! But when I was about 2ish I found a squished as in DEAD Frog and picked it up and put it in my mouth! My Mom found me and all she saw were frog legs sticking out! To this day my life long friend is petrified of frogs. YUCK! Wonder if this is where the saying out of the mouth of babes comes from!
I have another one for you!! My niece who is 9! She ate anything and everything as a baby! Crayons/dogfood/cauliflower/broccoli/ Pool Noodles/ BUT the best one
She was in the pool and her Mom said”_______ what are you eating? Child says LEAVES!! MOm YUCK!! Child, Their good and I like the brown crunchy ones!! REALLY!! This child is too funny and she was like 6 when she ate the leaves!
My girls were snackers & play-doh was #1 on the list. I would find my oldest taking bites out of the chunk of cheese then putting it back into the baggie! My younger one loved to bite the butter cubes. Tiny teeth marks in the cheese & butter all the time! My mom told me that when I was first learning to walk I’d pick up pebbles from outside & suck on them for hours. She’d have to clear my mouth out when it was time to eat or sleep! Maybe it is the minerals in the sand! I’m sure it will pass just like all the other silly things we did as children! Have a blessed day!
I really enjoyed your story~ As I am giggling to my self~ Out of my 3 boys, I had one that would do you same thing~ Makes me wish they were still little~
I ate carbon paper as a toddler. My mom was concerned enough to call the doctor who suggested she take a picture as is wouldn’t hurt me.
This isn’t too weird but as a toddler my 15 year old used to love green beans dipped in ketchup!
Well, can you believe that my little girl once ate…cat VOMIT! yup, I totally freaked out over that one.
My oldest daughter (now 39) about 4 yrs old at the time, ate cat food because she wanted to turn into a cat!
My daughter is 22 months and surprisingly doesn’t try to put everything in her mouth so nothing weird here…yet lol
My twins have drank water out of the dog bowl on all fours-ahhh-your standards go down after your kid does something like this!!
One of my children once ate cat litter..yes from the cat box! Luckly I had just changed it…still feel bad about it to this day, because I was taking a shower & she got out of the playpen. I did get a great picture of it to blackmail her at a later date! :0)
When I was a kid my brother urinated in my slurpee (ICEE) and I didnt realize it so I took a slip then I realized it didnt taste so well, and they started laughing at me and then told me about it. Needless to say it made me vomit my brains out……YUCK!!!
My oldest once ate a penny and we didn’t know it until we found it in his diaper!
Shortly before my daughter turned two, I caught her with what I thought was a marble in her mouth. I fished it out and examined it, only to start screeching in horror.
My kid was sucking on a rabbit turd like it was a lifesaver candy.