It’s not completely new for Hannah to be sticking her tongue out of mouth. For a few weeks now, she’s been sticking it out of her mouth as she giggles a wicked deep cackle. Today, though, has been a weird day for the tongue. First of all, she’s been pointing it–like Kiss. In addition to pointing the tongue, she’s been licking my shirt–just for fun. Then tonight she started imitating Charlie (our dog), panting with her tongue out of her mouth, and then she actually licked Charlie’s fur. Charlie is in the process of blowing her coat, so Hannah suddenly had a mouthful of fur. Hannah frequently puts strange things in her mouth. Hannah also can’t stand any strange textures in her mouth. When she has a strange texture in her mouth, she sticks her fingers in there and literally gags herself trying to get it off her tongue. She’s thrown up quite a number of times doing this. So tonight she had this dog hair in her mouth and she was gagging herself trying to get it off her tongue. Finally she just grabbed the bottom of my shirt and licked it to get the hair off, as if licking my shirt was no big deal.

The pointy tongue? I can take it or leave it. The shirt licking thing has got to go.

The gagging thing? Do I have a choice? Let’s just say it’s part of the wild woman mystique.