Thursday Thirteen: Toddler Entertainment

We were killing some time before a meeting today, a few of us moms, and one of us was remarking on how busy her 10-month old is, how hard it is when they can't entertain themselves. Actually, what she meant (and we knew she meant), is that you can't LET them entertain themselves. Trust me, they find plenty of things to do on their own. Fun things.

However, the toddler concept of fun is far different than ours. When it gets quiet suddenly, I know my kiddo is up to one of her favorite hobbies:

1. Drawing. Mainly on her face and body. When this gets boring, it's always fun to eat the marker and go show Mommy to get a good reaction. This also works with chalk and crayons.
   
2. Pushing a chair across the kitchen to climb on in order to reach everything. Everything.
3. Taking her wet toothbrush and making circles on the bathroom mirror.
4. Eating dirt from the herb garden pots. Sometimes she eats the lettuce. Sometimes.
   
5. Taking the guests' wine glasses off the table after dinner to try and get the last few drops of wine. Nothing like a nightcap.
6. Brushing the cat with Mommy's toothbrush.
7. Removing a tampon from my purse in the grocery store and waving it asking "What's that?" in front of the hot case cook.
8. Putting her finger in her nose, only when I am watching, because it gets a reaction. Reactions are funny.
9. Idly licking any nearby filthy item even if we are at Target. See above. Reactions are funny.
10. Putting on Mommy's bra and running through the house, even when my husband's friends are showing up for morning coffee.
11. Removing everything from every drawer anywhere and everywhere.
12. A strange fascination with dental floss. Yards and yards of dental floss.
13. Pulling her shorts and pull-ups down repeatedly in the middle of the neighbor's yard. In daylight. In front of their living room window.