Rooting Reflex Gone Awry

You know how newborns spend their entire life rooting around looking for food (I was going to type "boobs" but that would be offensive, wouldn't it?). This is a great and necessary reflex for breastfed infants but the rooting reflex is completely useless for formula fed infants.

Take Dexter (please be here by 2AM to pick him up) for instance. He displays this well. His rooting reflex has turned into a pecking reflex. He pecks everything looking for food - shoulders, remotes, faces, chairs, the floor, oranges.... peck, peck, peck. It is equally amusing and creepy.

This behavior has earned him the nickname Little Pecker, er, I mean Chicken Little.