Every time I have changed Miss F's (18months) nappy, Miss M would like to see the poo. I'm ok with that, but I draw the line at touching it, or poking it with things - much to Miss M's frustration. When we have done a dog poo scoop in the yard, Miss M delights in finding all the poo, standing over it, point at it and yelling (at the top of her voice) "POO!!!). Such a great help - sorry neighbours!
Miss M is not yet "toilet trained" - I personally hate that phrase, but that's for another conversation. She has shown interest a few times, but not for quite a while. This week we were all about undies and using the toilet and not nappies, so it was a nice change. But the poo fascination continued. The poo in toilet required everyone to look at it - "it's a beautiful poo" she exclaimed! The poo that didn't quite make the toilet wasn't so nice "I don't like poo in my undies".
Today we are back in nappies, but the poo fascination continues. "what is in poo?". 😐 So we talked about how what we eat gets churned up in our bellies, our body sucks up all the goodness and nutrients from the food to make energy (she's all about energy at the moment) and then what is left becomes poo. Not a bad explanation I thought? Then she wanted to take a photo of a "beautiful poo" in a nappy and send it to her aunty so she too could admire the beauty. Yes we took the photo, but we talked about how poo is not something most people would like to look at, so perhaps this could just be a photo for you to look at (you're welcome sis)- and no maybe not on our wall, how about we just keep it in my phone?
It's ok, I won't share that particular 'beautiful' photo on this post... here's a beautiful flower instead.
We drove to playgroup this week - about 30mins away - and Miss M was very concerned that her little sister thought everything was hers. The drive consisted of questions like "what if F.... thinks that house over there is hers?", "What if she thinks that truck is hers?" "what if she thinks the trees and sky are all hers". Trying to explain to a 3 year old that a 1 year old doesn't really understand ownership and thinks everything is hers to enjoy and look at and play with, is oddly frustrating. So after trying for some time, we started singing play school songs instead - very thankful for Justine's CD being in our car!
Miss M has, until recently, never really been one to play imaginary games or play. A new game this week has been 'library / pet store'. In this game (invented by Miss M) Miss M asks us what book we would like to borrow from the library / or what pet we would like. We are not allowed to say one already done (!) and then she magically finds it for us. Its quite fun, but gets very hard when you're into the second hour and have asked for a book on everything you have knowledge of existing, or have asked for a pet of every animal you can think of.
It did highlight one thing to me, Miss M's knowledge of animals is a lot more than I gave her credit for. For most of the animals I asked for, she could tell me where they would live and what they ate. Kids really are sponges for information.
Thanks for reading. Hope you didn't get too squeamish with all the poo talk - that's toddlers for you!
Cheers!
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