toddlerific idiosyncracies

just a short list of some of the bean's toddlerrific idiosyncracies:

a) the toothbrush tussle - when the bean insists on clamping down on the toothbrush so that you can’t brush her teeth properly, or she might simply keep turning her head away each time a toothbrush is brought to her so that you get to shove the toothbrush into the air with each manoeuvre! i’ve ended up doing the carrot-stick approach (“you get milk later” or “mummy will get VERY angry” when the former fails).

b) potty pugnacity - these days if she gets too caught up with playing or the (i admit this guiltily) telly, then she would rather go in her nappy instead of telling me about it so I can whip out the potty.

c) the potty-mouth echo - there were a few times when dh and i were not as careful with our speech as we should have been and the bean repeated our more colourful language with extreme accuracy. admittedly, this is quite an achievement since she doesn’t usually enunciate well. e.g. “heemah hee” (can you guess she means ‘christmas tree’?), “dairh-ee” (daddy), “fwy” (butterfly) et al.

d) birthday suit preference - lately she has decided that she would rather not get dressed when i take her out of her nightwear. so i have the joy of running after this naked child who takes delight in calling out “nayk” “nayk” (naked, naked) then pointing to her chest to proclaim, “neep” (nipple)!

e) mad dancing - the bean's combines a bit of that 60’s dance move The Monkey (arms go up and down) with spinning around till she stumbles dizzily. she likes to groove in this manner first thing in the morning, once she’s out of the bedroom, and it doesn’t matter if it’s to bach or barney, mozart or mickey mouse, it’s still the same dance.