Toddler Tips: Patterned Sheets and Plastic Plates
I recently invested in some patterned sheets for Bobbin's crib. I looked at sheets with butterflies, sheets with flowers, sheets with birds, and sheets with fairy princesses and finally settled on footballs, soccerballs, and baseballs. She loves them. So much so, she asks to go "Nite-nite?" as soon as we get home. And when I put her in the crib she gets down on all fours and giggles and counts the footballs, and shouts "Boobah!" (football) and then points to the little stars (the theme is "all-star" sports) around the footballs and exclaims "Gingo Gingo!" (twinkle twinkle) and then erupts in fits of laughter.
Patterned sheets. I highly recommend investing the $9.99 (or less). Get prints of things she's interested in. She'll stay in bed longer in the morning :-)
Bobbin's new chore is setting the table. As such, I've also recently invested in some plastic tableware for all of us. Bowls, dinner plates, salad plates, cups. Plastic's not just for toddlers anymore in our household. I'll hand her plates one at a time and she'll carry them gingerly over to the table and stand on her tiptoes and reach up and set them one by one on top of the table. She can't actually see where she's putting them. Invariably they end up all clustered up on one tiny corner of the table. Likewise with forks and knives. Butter knives only, of course. But she doesn't know that... all she knows is that she's being trusted to carry the big sharp knives and set them on the table carefully. Which she does. Cups end up on their side, because she's not tall enough to set them on their base and have them stay upright. It's really quite cute to witness. And if dinner's not quite ready by the time she's done, we'll put a few extra bowls and spoons on the table "just in case we need them" :-)
Yup - those are my two toddler tips: Patterned sheets and plastic tableware!
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Note - in case you get them mixed up: plastic sheets and patterned plates solve an entirely different set of problems.
Posted by heather on December 3, 2006 10:20 PM.