Jake carries things in his mouth.

Jake is going through a phase where he carries his stuffed animals in his mouth as he walks. He does this most often with his bear "Scout"*.

The problem is that as he walks along, holding the animal in his teeth, he can't see where he's going. So he will often trip or fall forward onto his face.

When we randomly pick up one of his stuffed animals it will often be wet with his saliva. Sometimes the stuffed animal is stained a strange colour. We realize that whatever he was eating at the moment had dripped out of his mouth and stained the animal.

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* Scout has a USB port. We plugged him into the computer and downloaded some new songs and told him Jake's name. Now he says out loud "Hi Jake". And uses Jake's name in the songs. When Jake first heard this, he sat up straight in surprise and pointed to himself. We said, "Yes, Scout is talking to you." Toys are insane these days.