Little Nippers

As cursed as we human beings are with only four erogenous zones on our tongue it doesn’t seem to be a consideration for this little boy currently using our spare bedroom. I wonder if like baby knee caps, the sour, sweet, salt and bitter taste zones on his tongue will develop when he is more familiar with life on this earth. And isn’t that a scary fact, no human baby is born with knee caps! Probably explains why no babes are ass kissers or beggars for anything, they demand, and right bloody now! Later in life, little do they know, getting down on their knees will become a common position as they beg for an extra hour of TV or some fancy new toy making the rounds in the school yard. And so voila! Just like that, knee caps will become a very real part of their lives. So now what about those taste zones, what makes them come into being? Vegetables? Like do toddlers have a Brussels sprout detecting taste zone, or a spinach deflecting reflex in their mouth. One mouth full and out it comes, yet months ago when they were real babies they couldn’t get enough or everything. But for the time being its all things are masticated as equal if they come to the mouth of this babe.