Nevaeh's Fasination with Paper

So our baby Nevaeh has always had a fasination with paper. The way it would crinkle when she touched it, the texture and the irresistible taste!!!! She has an obsession with eating paper!!!  When she sees me cutting the weekly coupons out of the paper, she will gaze very intently at me as I flip through the ads and use my sissors to cut a few out. She would even try to jump out of her saucer with excitement to get to it! This is always expressed by bouncing with flapping her hands and waving her arms. This is always accompanied with quick excited breaths almost like panting. Pure excitement at just ordinary paper!! When she was little it was really easy to keep her away from it. You just got it out of arms reach. But now that she can crawl, explore and even climb, paper is very difficult to hide. It's everywhere!!!!!
    On the chance she does achieve her mission in getting paper, she has a very creative way in trying to disquise that she is eating it. She sits with her back to you, and every once in a while she turns around to look at you with a piece of paper sticking out of her mouth to see if she is caught. The stinker! She's only eight months! So as every good mom would do, I hurry over and try to get the paper out of her mouth. She is not going to give it up without a fight. I say 'No Nevaeh, we do not eat paper' as I wrestle to get it out of her mouth. She wiggles to that it is hard to keep her still long enough to even see the paper I'm trying to get. She turns her head back and forth making it difficult to stick your finger in her mouth to swipe the paper out. When you do get your finger in, she bites it with one of her six teeth. Trying to extract paper from a wiggly baby is hard!! Her favorite defense is to clamp her mouth shut so that mommy's fingers can't get in to take her precious paper away. HAHAHA I got to laugh that she is really clever for such a little thing. But mommy always wins!!