Odd behavior for 2 year old

[tripletmom424]

Hi I have 2 year old(birthday in April) triplets. One of the triplets is very hyper and active and loud. She also does a strange thing with her diaper and other cotton like items. It started about 4 or 5 months ago with blankets. She picks at the blanket until she gets a bit of the cotton off and then drags the cotton across her lips for a minute or so and then tosses the cotton. Now she is doing it with parts of the outside of her diaper. She gets a pretty good amount of cotton off the side stretchy part of the diapers and drags them across her lips and then throws them in her hair. SHe has 2 to 3 bunches of cotton in her hair at any time. I try and correct her about not doing this action but by the end of the day there are 100 bunches of cotton all over the rug. We try to keep her dressed, but she takes off her clothes, or she'd just find a blanket and use that for the little bits of cotton. Like I said she is very active and probably gets more time outs than her triplet sisters but I am concerned with this behavior is a bit odd.

[AnnieBrooke]

Someone else on this site wrote that she used to rub something across her upper lip as a self-soothing mechanism all the time when she was little, and that to this day when she wants to concentrate on a test or something like that, she will rub the end of a pen across her upper lip.  It might be that kind of thing, a way to self-soothe.  I would try not to make a big deal out of it, except maybe to find her a small fuzzy toy or one of those hankie-sized soft blankets, and let her use that, so she won't be tearing at cotton all the time.  Good luck!

[yngdad]

Children sometimes get in repetitive stages. She might grow out of it. If she doesn't then maybe u should call her pediatrician. Good luck.