Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Yesterday I was twirling my pen while working and she crawled over and grabbed it out of my hand. She only tried putting it in her mouth maybe 2 or 3 times. I reasoned with her. I'm not sure if she understood but she tried putting it in her mouth significantly less!
Also, we realized she definitely is interested in drawing/writing. Once she had the pen she kept crawling over to try and grab an article I was writing. I kept trying to put it somewhere else but she persisted. I couldn't figure out why she wanted the paper when she already had the pen... Then it hit me (clearly I'm not as smart as DD since it took awhile for me to figure this out!) that she wanted the paper to practice writing. So I gave her a crayon and a blank piece of paper and she started going at it. She didn't make too many marks on the paper but the couch, her leg, and her diaper had some nice green marks on them.
Thank God for washable crayons!
