Maybe I need to buy better vitamins

I caught Arielle eating baking soda today. Yes, as in sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, Arm and Hammer, useful in cleaning, deodorizing and leavening. Nasty tasting stuff, as you will know if you have ever brushed your teeth with it or bitten into a soda biscuit that wasn't adequately mixed.

And she was eating it, dipping her finger in and then licking it off.

"What are you doing?" I asked her, aghast.

"It's yummy, Mommy," she told me.

Then she stuck her finger in again, sucking off the soda like another kid might eat sugar out of the bowl.

"Arielle, that's yucky stuff! Don't eat that!"

"It's yummy," she repeated, smiling at Mommy to reassure me that all was well as she ate some more.

"Stop that! You're creeping me out!"

I took the baking soda away and placed it high up, out of reach.

Garielle likes to eat rice wine vinegar. She was begging her dad for some the other night (Michael won't eat broccoli without rice wine vinegar on it) so he put some on her finger and let her suck it off.

"Yummi!" she exclaimed. (And yes, she says yummy with an 'I'. Don't ask me how I know. I just do.) Then she begged for more, which he gave her, and when he stopped giving her vinegar, she cried.

I have the weirdest kids.