drinking

This morning I gave Rachel her seizure medication, as I usually do. I pop the pill(s) in her mouth and hand her a glass of water and she does the rest. As I watched her I noticed, again, the way she drinks. She puts the cup to her mouth, but then her tongue usually goes underneath the cup and she pours the water into her mouth and swallows without really moving her tongue or her lips. I tried it once, just to see what it was like, and I can't do it. I don't know why she drinks that way, and she's certainly not telling me. Sometimes she will chug an entire glass of water, 8 or more ounces, without a pause of any kind. Once I tried to get her to keep her tongue in her mouth while she drank, but she couldn't figure out what I was trying to do and we both ended up with water on us and I decided it didn't really matter HOW she was drinking, just as long as she got the liquid in her, so I let it go as unimportant. And it is. Her little quirks just fascinate me.