Eatin' Sand...

My baby loves to eat sand. Is this normal? I mean, I only know my baby girl, so I am thinking that she is some freak of nature and I must be doing something terribly wrong in her diet to make her enjoy the sand feast. But then it occured to me that her oatmeal and rice cereal probably have about the same texture and flavor as sand, so in her mind, she may think that she's sitting in a huge bowl of oatmeal. Here she is getting her first real good bite of sand.

Yep, she's in heaven. Just look at those eyes. She makes this sound like, "ooooh ooooooh" when she's really happy. She was ooooohing when she ate the sand. Go figure.


Imagine getting five million pieces of sand out of the tiny crevices of a baby's neck, ears, mouth, eyes....