Having my daughter is definitely the best thing that happened to me in my whole life. She is my source of happiness and inspiration since the day I conceived her, to the the day she was born and more now that she is a toddler , an active two-year old little girl. She’s the sweetest, most helpful, most cheerful and most short-tempered little best friend I have ever had.
Having her by my side keeps me busy and occupied and never alone even for a minute. Yes, my little one is so clingy. She goes wherever I go (even in the toilet). She gives me hugs and kisses. When I cough a little bit, she asks if mommy is okay and run to give mommy water to drink. She likes everything about mommy, most especially, mommy’s boobie. Those are her sleeping pills, her teddy, her toy, everything that she needs. She still never give them up despite her age.
She likes to play with me with her little kitchen set, her puzzles, flag cards, and other toys. She likes mommy to blow bubbles with her. She helps mommy in the garden, too. She likes watering the plants and using her shovel to scoop garden soil. She even help mommy wash the dishes and hang the clothes at her age. Her favorite part is clipping the clothes with the clothespin. With washing dishes, it’s more like playing with water for her. But it’s fine coz she just wants to be with mommy.
But, there is one special moment she wants mommy not to come near her. That moment that she’d rather hide behind the curtains or in the corner of her mini-slides. The moment that she is focusing her attention and energy to excrete something down below. She is not ready yet to use that small room mommy calls the toilet where a thing mommy calls potty is there waiting for her to sit on. I guess mommy has to wait for her readiness to do it.
She loves to sing and dance. She likes incy wincy spider, number songs, and many others but she likes the birthday song the most. She even makes her own song by creating her own lyrics. She likes playing her toy fabric piano and dance to the tunes it plays. Doe a deer is her favorite tune in it.
Having a toddler is not all smiles and giggles and smooth playtime. There are, of course, many moments of tantrums and throwing a fit just because one puzzle would not fit and she hates it right away or when she can’t make the tallest tower with her blocks. Or because she does not want to leave the park after hours of playing. Those moments she wants to keep watering mommy’s plants even though it’s flooded already and mommy stops her. Or those times when her diaper needs to be changed and mommy had to chase her or stop her from wiggling.
The most difficult part, the scares from time to time. One time she ate fish and choked a little bit and it scared mommy to death she cried. And the latest that happened the other night, was also a choking scare.
My toddler has been playing with a coinbank with real coins for a while now (like maybe two months).
I was dumb ( realy dumb) to think it was good for her psychomotor development (precision in inserting coins) and I thought she is old enough to play with coins and not put them in her mouth which she never really did, until last night!!
She was playing with her coin bank in the living room when I left to use the toilet. Her dad was with her and when I was walking down the hallway back to the living room, I heard my DH panicking that our girl was eating the coins!!😱
He saw her spit few coins and I saw her spit a ten yen coin!!! I hurried and checked her mouth and there were no more. But we were not really sure if she swallowed some or what.
I called #8000 to consult and they told me to observe her for signs like vomiting, coughing, pointing to her throat and to take her to the hospital right away if any sign is observed.
I could not sleep well last night.
Fast forward the next morning, I took her to her pedia to have her examined and good thing nothing was seen on her x-ray. And her doctor said if she swallowed any coin it will just come out naturally in her stool in a few days.
Sigh! I’m now relieved a little bit but is still thinking about what if she swallowed it and all the worse thing that could happen.
Definitely, a lesson for me.
No objects smaller than a ping pong ball within her reach and never leave her unattended! Never!
Having a toddler is like riding a roller coaster. It’s fun and exciting and scary at the same time. There are ups, there are downs and definitely there is an abrupt end. Children these days they grow so fast! She was just a little immobile, wordless tiny creature two years ago and now she is an always on the move tiny human – hopping, jumping, singing, dancing and talking. Few years from now she will be a school child, a teenager, a young adult, a professional. I only hope I could live that long to see her evolve into a wonderful wonderful person – a beautiful one as she is always is to me.
