It's inevitable. No toy is ever as intriguing as the non-toy toy. Your baby can be surrounded by the coolest, the most colorful, the most baby-friendly toys and yet, without fail, they lock onto something that was never quite meant for them. For Charlotte it was a slightly used tissue and plastic spoons yesterday. Nothing could make her nearly as happy or keep her as chill as that tissue could. She sat with her back facing me, for about 15 minutes, just tearing, shaking, and inspecting it. It was more fun than her light-up green dinosaur toy with music and balls to slide down chutes. It was more magical than her one-walled house that sings and teaches her how to count to 10. It was more captivating than her yellow school bus with flashing lights and the sounds of laughing children. Yes. It was more fun than all these things. But as wonderful as the tissue was, it was so quickly disregarded as soon as four plastic spoons were discovered on the coffee table.
Maybe next time the dinosaur, the house, and the school bus will have more luck. But not today. Today some plastic packaging was found and no other toy stood a chance.
What kind of fun choking hazards are
your kids playing with these days? :)
