Life with a Toddler
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lenora_rose Exhibit A
In the last couple of days, when I have had my back turned, I have variously returned to find Joseph:
- Playing quietly
- Flipping through books.
- Spinning whatever item he can find will spin (Pot lids, toplike toys, flat discs, etc.)
- Has dunked a book in the toilet (we usually keep the bathroom doors shut. Book is destroyed, not due to anything extra in the toilet, but just from general water exposure.)
- Is standing on a stepladder, watching the fascinating waterfall effect of tipping the Brita jug onto the counter (And the water's subsequent pour to the floor)
- Is standing on the kitchen windowsill looking out.(Sill is roughly 6 inches wide) (Moved the stool he used.)
- is sitting calmly on the kitchen windowsill kicking his feet. (Got there from the back of the high chair. Which I know because I caught him straddling the distance another time.)
- is sitting in his high chair. (This involved the stool again, not going over the back of the high chair. I hope. NB. these events were hours or days apart.)
- Has cleaned my desk by dropping almost every object from my trackball on smaller to the floor of my study.
- Has emptied a fabric bin (he used to completely not notice) as far as his arms could possibly reach.
- Is dropping any number of experimental objects down the stairs.
- Is lying perfectly safe on the couch but giggling crazily like he's done something awesome.
- Has once again taken apart all the play mats in the living room and scattered them.
- Is dropping either his toys or the dry cat food in the cats' water dish. (This has been one of his standard things for a while.)
- Is carrying his 3' inflatable pool into the kitchen like he hopes I'll set it up indoors for once.
In other words, he's a normal healthy toddler.
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Exhibit B
So we still buy JoJo a number of toddler packaged foods or other easy foods for those times we're eating something he can't/won't or just don't have time. (though some days finding the acceptable from the suck is hard...there's one readily available brand where a lot of their stuff is either lacking in nutrition or full of stupid levels of salt.)
So I found a rather nice series to try. One of them being pumpkin and squash with quinoa. Opened it. Offered JoJo a spoonful. He ate it but made a face. I tried a bite. Said, "I see the problem." Went to the cupboard. Added small doses of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Stirred. Gave him another spoonful.
He ate every bit of it.
Good god, people. You do not have to avoid reasonable seasoning in Baby food, and especially toddler-level food. Kinda the opposite...
He had some issues with actually spicy thai food, but I mean "feel the heat on your tongue for a while after you ate it" food. (And even that, he had several bites before he was all about "Give me the cup of milk to kill this!")
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Exhibit C
At the age of 21 months:
My boy climbs EVERYTHING.
He's been doing this for a few weeks.
It looks like the embed doesn't work, so here's a link.
The stairs he's been doing a while, but the posts are new.
It looks like the embed doesn't work, so here's a link.
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Only Semi related
The picture is fuzzy but here's the progress on the mural. I need to redo the horses size-wise (That's what I get for, like, measuring them the first time.)
In the last couple of days, when I have had my back turned, I have variously returned to find Joseph:
- Playing quietly
- Flipping through books.
- Spinning whatever item he can find will spin (Pot lids, toplike toys, flat discs, etc.)
- Has dunked a book in the toilet (we usually keep the bathroom doors shut. Book is destroyed, not due to anything extra in the toilet, but just from general water exposure.)
- Is standing on a stepladder, watching the fascinating waterfall effect of tipping the Brita jug onto the counter (And the water's subsequent pour to the floor)
- Is standing on the kitchen windowsill looking out.(Sill is roughly 6 inches wide) (Moved the stool he used.)
- is sitting calmly on the kitchen windowsill kicking his feet. (Got there from the back of the high chair. Which I know because I caught him straddling the distance another time.)
- is sitting in his high chair. (This involved the stool again, not going over the back of the high chair. I hope. NB. these events were hours or days apart.)
- Has cleaned my desk by dropping almost every object from my trackball on smaller to the floor of my study.
- Has emptied a fabric bin (he used to completely not notice) as far as his arms could possibly reach.
- Is dropping any number of experimental objects down the stairs.
- Is lying perfectly safe on the couch but giggling crazily like he's done something awesome.
- Has once again taken apart all the play mats in the living room and scattered them.
- Is dropping either his toys or the dry cat food in the cats' water dish. (This has been one of his standard things for a while.)
- Is carrying his 3' inflatable pool into the kitchen like he hopes I'll set it up indoors for once.
In other words, he's a normal healthy toddler.
____________________
Exhibit B
So we still buy JoJo a number of toddler packaged foods or other easy foods for those times we're eating something he can't/won't or just don't have time. (though some days finding the acceptable from the suck is hard...there's one readily available brand where a lot of their stuff is either lacking in nutrition or full of stupid levels of salt.)
So I found a rather nice series to try. One of them being pumpkin and squash with quinoa. Opened it. Offered JoJo a spoonful. He ate it but made a face. I tried a bite. Said, "I see the problem." Went to the cupboard. Added small doses of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Stirred. Gave him another spoonful.
He ate every bit of it.
Good god, people. You do not have to avoid reasonable seasoning in Baby food, and especially toddler-level food. Kinda the opposite...
He had some issues with actually spicy thai food, but I mean "feel the heat on your tongue for a while after you ate it" food. (And even that, he had several bites before he was all about "Give me the cup of milk to kill this!")
_______________
Exhibit C
At the age of 21 months:
My boy climbs EVERYTHING.
He's been doing this for a few weeks.
It looks like the embed doesn't work, so here's a link.
The stairs he's been doing a while, but the posts are new.
It looks like the embed doesn't work, so here's a link.
_________________
Only Semi related
The picture is fuzzy but here's the progress on the mural. I need to redo the horses size-wise (That's what I get for, like, measuring them the first time.)
