Quirks

Seeing a post from Samanthat on her daughter Penny who has a fear of sinks with soaps, reminded me of some of Tessa's quirks. In general Tessa is not afraid of anything. She has no fear of water, animals, even storms. When we have bad thunderstorms she just stares out the window and says "Look Mommy, it's blinking" (aka lightning).

For some reason, though, she has developed a fear of the bath drain. The tub in our bathroom has a stop that you push down to close and when bumped or touched the wrong way can open easily. So of course, with all of her toys, buckets, AND Ellis in the tub, it gets bumped and opens. She flips out. It's gotten a little better since we have been working with her on it, but for a while. She would start screaming and pushing Ellis out of the way, which in turn would freak him out since he didn't like getting knocked over in the tub. It's very strange, since she developed this fear recently. She's gotten better where she doesn't start screaming or shaking, but she always lets us know "Don't let the water out, Daddy". We have to wait until she's in bed before draining the tub.

The other quirky thing is that she doesn't like flushing the potty when not at home. This fear I think I can explain. She was at the new playground by my parents house with my Mom, and had to go potty. They are newew, nicer, public potties with automatic flushers. I guess since she was so small, the sensor didn't work quite right and it flushed while she peeing. Then at the same time a lady started to dry her hands with one of those X-lerator hand dryers and I think it was too much at once. Since then she never wants to flush in public. On our way back from Jekyll Island she had a total melt-down when I flushed and for 20 minutes was screaming in the car about how I flushed the potty. Sometimes I can coax her to do it, but it's still a little wierd.