Ring, ring, ring - remotephone!
I read about kids starting to use items for their intended use around Gwen’s age and thought “Aw, how cute!”
Awwww, how cute!
Um yeah. Ridiculously cute! This is Gwen yesterday using the TV remote as a phone. We gave her the real cordless phone and she threw it on the ground. Apparently she doesn’t think it’s a real phone like the remote is!
Gwen started grabbing the comb out of my hand and rubbing it on her own head a couple of weeks ago and I realized just how crazy important that milestone really is. My kid now understands that a comb is for brushing hair! Wow! That’s a pretty big leap from the ‘what’s that spiky black thing and why are you rubbing it on my head?’ look she’s been giving me since birth …
The cutest yet? This morning while I was brushing my teeth, Gwen was holding her foot in one hand and a shoe in the other, trying to get her foot in the shoe.
(Is it bad that the thought after ‘Heehee - she’s trying to put her shoe on!’ was ‘oh crap, now she’s going to want to do it herself and the TANTRUMS, OH THE TANTRUMS!’)
Tammy said,
May 26, 2009 @ 4:48 am
Isn’t it amazing! It never fails - the tv remote and the phone are all toddlers favourite toys. They really do imitate everything we do. What an awesome responsibility that is!
Yup, the tantrums are right around the corner - have fun
Tammy said,
May 26, 2009 @ 4:49 am
BTW - I really think you need to add my blog to your blogroll. I’m just sayin’.
jenny the big sister said,
May 26, 2009 @ 7:18 pm
lol no its not bad to think that. just wait until they figure out how to take items ‘off’ instead of putting them on. socks don’t last long sometimes at out house…
kim said,
May 26, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
Oh the socks! Ever since Gwen learned that in the summer socks don’t have to stay on, she takes them off whenever I put them on … unless covered by shoes, of course!
Tammy, it’s funny with the remote b/c we don’t have cable and therefore don’t ever watch tv during the day! I guess it’s still a fun toy, huh?