Cracker Axis

Baby J loves crackers, saltines especially. But whenever I give her a whole one she bites from one corner which shatters the rest of it into cracker crumbs that land on the floor.

To prevent this from happening, I break the crackers in half, try to make them more bite-sized for a baby. There are two ways to break a square cracker into equal rectangular parts, two axis or plane of cleavage. We'll call them North to South and East to West. The crackers only break evenly on one axis. Try to break one along the wrong axis and it crumbles into dusty cracker shards. And you never know just by looking which is the right way to break it so the halves comes out perfect.

But somehow, I know how to do it based on touch. My fingers have split approximate 2,045 crackers at this point and they learned to intuitively find the proper cracker axis.

I'm pretty proud of this newfound skill though I'm fairly certain it's not going to help that much during my lifetime.