Does Your 2 Year Old Play with a Favorite Toy ALL Day??

Oh yeah! I've been there too but in our house, it was the Thomas The Tank Engine stuff--everywhere--ALL the time! :-)
(On a quiet day, I can still hear that opening music in my head.....LOL)

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I think it's great! My 2 year old goes through phases with toys where she's stuck on a certain thing for a few weeks at a time but would definitely not play with one toy all day! I'm jealous! ;) I'd say keep it up! Maybe she'll be a vet or a marine biologist one day! Enjoy!

Yes it is normal and yes make sure you keep the little animals forever. My 26 year old daughter still has her favorite two year old toy, a Sesame Street playset, which she played with daily for at least a year, in my attic and would just die If I ever threw it out. Kids know what they like and yours likes animals. Let her be.

And my daughter? She is an educator!

My nephew was crazy about humpback whales-of all things! He watched this video of them-something recorded from national geographic-over and over and over. He also got into other ocean mammals-dolphins, manatees etc...but humpback whales were his favorite. When they planned a trip to Sea World he prayed to God everynight that there would be a humpback whale there-although his mom and dad explained it's not good for an animal so big to be in a tank. Eventually he grew out of that-he's 13 now and more into pirates-and a straight A student.

my 2 yr old play with horses, horses, horses and more horses. they ride the dogs they have cowboys put on them they go in the bowl in shoes. they climb the baby gate. they go through the handle on the pail. they do all kinds of little creative things. he will play with other toys as long as horses are some how involved. then we have lions dogs cats sheep etc, the lion eats the horse.

the dogs ride the horse the play dogs that is. so what are you worried about. the horsies help him eat his supper they get spoon fed supper. she will outgrow the obsession but will probably always like animals no matter how you try to redirect her. whe will outgrow it promise. i have a 21 yr old and a 2 yr old and I already know they will outgrow it to a degree but when they become older the animals become real. :)

My son was into dinosaurs the same way when he was 2. He would play with them, set them up, and line them up forever if we didn't introduce other activities. Now he is 3 and still likes to play with his dinos, but they eventually lost their number 1 place......now it's superheroes!

Animals there are so many different kinds and if she is not fixed on just one let it ride out . My oldest who will be 15 in September loved animals too and she helps out the neighbors with their pets and makes a little money to boot. There are way worse things to be obsessed about and animals provide many great opportunities to learn about the world and environment. Enjoy the animal kingdom.
J. O

With my son, it was Thomas the Tank Engine. What I did was intertwine other subjects into the Thomas world. Like eating green beans. He balked at the beans until I told him that Thomas brings the green beans to the grocery store. He was SO on-board with that! When we would see a train while driving, we'd talk about the different kinds of train cars, which ones might be refrigerated, etc. I learned a great deal about trains during that time.

You could go to zoos, study animal habits, food, etc. It becomes a real zoology lesson that you can incorporate into all kinds of things.

When my son was one year old, it was about different kinds of trucks. One of his first words was backhoe! After Thomas, he got on the dinosaur kick. That led us to many museum trips, including to NYC.

Make the best of it, and have fun. At least it's a wide field of study she has chosen!

D.