an unusual toy

A while ago I gave Jake a spatula (the one you use to scrape a bowl clean not the type you use to flip a pancake) and a plastic bowl to play with while I was cooking dinner. He enjoyed it, but would leave it by the kitchen and forget about it. Well, while Grammy and Grandpa were here, it became an appendage. Jake took it everywhere! He would crawl with it, place it on the coffee table and then pull up to play with it on the coffee table. We even taught him how to hit a ball with the spatula! Who knows, maybe he'll enjoy sports with a bat or stick (baseball, hockey, golf...).

Well, since it was a full-sized spatula, we thought he should have one more his size. So we purchased a mini silicone spatula that he can chew on, bang on the coffee table, safely crawl with, and pretty much take anywhere without injuring himself! It's what he grabs before we leave the house- it goes everywhere! He loves to balance his blocks on it and then shake them around. He even puts it through the net on his basketball goal and then moves it to put a ball through. Sometimes he waves it around like he's conducting or points it while talking as if for added emphasis. It's pretty amusing what he finds to do with that spatula! What an unusual toy!