Kitchen Toys
This morning Ezra was crawling around with his new favorite toy: a big red plastic cup. The big red plastic cup is the most recent in a long line of kitchen utensils that has become Ezra’s toys. Before the big red cup, Ezra liked most to play with a whisk that he like to hit against the ground. (He still likes to play with the whisk, but after stepping on it a couple of day ago I have put the whisk on an upper shelve out of his reach for now.) There are plastic spatulas and big plastic spoons that he seems to enjoy hitting together and against the ground and try to bite and chew on. He still likes to toss around and hit the tops of tupperware bowls and containers. Wooden spoons, strainers, cutting boards and measuring cups are a few other kitchen toys. It is my hope that in the distant future he will have a fondness of these kitchen toys and see them as “toys” to cook and take over cooking duties for a couple of days a week. For now, it is good to see him get additional use out of “toys” that can be used for something else once he gets bored of them.