Due to a few problems with stains and mold, we have many new carpets in the new house. I would have liked to keep the old ones, but it wasn’t entirely an option. So only three old carpets remain.
New carpet it kind of nice. We got some odd
looking ones and we were able to make the master bedroom yellow again. And
there are fewer carpets with pins and needles in them. Seriously. Grandma sewed
a lot, and growing up, I always left my shoes on in the house because it was
really risky to go barefoot. My feet picked up SOOOO many stray pins over the
years. It has only been a minor issue so far; mostly in the
office-turned-sewing-room that kept it’s carpet. Along with the carpet
roughness issue if you’re crawling on it.
But also, new carpet sheds a lot. There are lots
of little pieces of carpet coming out and migrating around the house. And it’s
REALLY easy to pull out a few loose strands.
Which is exactly what Agatha likes. She pulls up little pieces and sticks them in her mouth as fast as possible, and then makes gagging noises because apparently it feels uncomfortable when trying to swallow them. And then she screams and clamps her jaw shut when I give her a finger sweep to get the carpet fluff out. We do this maybe six times a day. Just for the carpet wisps. That’s not counting bits of paper, tissue, dirt, rocks, or random things she finds on the floor. Or the finger sweeps we do for phantom items, because Agatha is CLEARLY chewing on SOMETHING, but we can’t find anything in there. And after we give up on the finger sweep, she is STILL CHEWING.
You’d think at some point, she’d be discouraged
and stop. But, no, she’s just learned to be faster and sneakier.
I’m not a big fan of new carpets for this reason.
Babies with overly developed fine motor skills should not be encouraged by the
flooring in their homes. I’m looking your way, kid. And put that scrap of candy
wrapper down. I don’t even know where it came from.
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