The Great Outdoors

As everyone already knows, Em is a very cautious child. Anything new takes Emilee at least 5 minutes of looking and pointer finger touching before she deems it acceptable. However, grass is apparently in a category all it's own. No amount of pointer finger touching or forcing her to crawl on the ground will make grass ok for her.

This is Emilee waving hi as Dave mows the grass. Little does she know what awaits her in the great outdoors...

This was my compromise. She was outside, not touching grass, and I could get some work done in the garden.

And then the next day I decided that she just needed to deal with it and I sat her in the grass. After she stopped shaking - yes shaking-she sat and watched us plant the garden just fine. She still refused to touch any grass with her hands.

So I put a clump of grass on her pant leg, to see if she would touch it and give it her pointer finger seal of approval.

Almost touching...nope - not gonna do it!

She loved to touch her shoes - with the pointer finger of course.

And then she decided that she was tired of looking at grass and took her eyes to the sky.

I think that I'll just watch Dad. (Notice how the hands are held closely to her body - she didn't want to accidentally touch any grass!)