Toddlers Do the Cutest Things

Seeing the world through a 2-year-old's eyes can be quite interesting, if we remember to do that every once in a while. Sometimes, just the mundane things in life that Scarlett does seem fairly amusing to me. For the last two months, Scarlett's really into doing things by herself: "MY do it!" For example, I'll tell her to brush her teeth before bedtime. In rushing to get through her bedtime routine, I'll hand her the toothbrush. What does she do? She says, "no, MY do." She puts it back, and picks it up again. She does the same thing with anything else, like walking all the way across the living room to put her chair back (that I had picked up for her), just so she can pick it up and bring it over to the kitchen by herself.
On Monday, as I was setting the dinner table and putting the food on the table, Scarlett climbed up on a stool and saw 3 pears that I had left on the countertop to ripen. She played with them, which I decided, was no big deal and I shouldn't make a fuss out of it. So a few minutes later, I turned around to find that she had decided to take a few bites out of each one.

She wasn't interested in eating them. She just wanted to sample them! When my husband came home from work, he asked me why I bit into 2 of the pears. It's funny to think that he would think that I would do that. The pears are still sitting on the countertop, with "squirrel-like bites" on them.