His current favorite thing to carry around (carrying around=srs bzns for babies) is a broken heart clacker that Shiny got for Valentines Day. He clacked with it until the cheap plastic broke and now he just carries it around for the most part.
In a related development, he has discovered the concept of Hammering. And the related activity of Thwacking.
So now his FAVORITE thing to do is to climb up onto my arm and thwack me with a hot pink heart clacker that no longer clacks. I gently remove it from his hand, and toss it over across the room, and admonish “no hitting mama. Hit THAT.” (that=stuffed animal, other toy, chair, whatever, as long as it is not me and not his sisters).
2 minute later he hops down, toddles off, picks up the clacker, toddles around thwacking things with it for a while, and then climbs up and hits me with the heart clacker.
It’s like the cutest, most surreal and yet simultaneously annoying game of fetch ever.
