Losing My Marbles

If you are as fortunate is I am, you will be able to do this next activity with your two year old. My boy doesn't ever put anything in his mouth, so we are pretty well covered on this. If you are not as fortunate, cotton balls will do.

I often dislocate this one joint in the bridge of my left foot and sometimes it will stay that way for days! I also dislocate my big toe and the toe next to it. I am often limited to household tasks and regular every day things I need to do to care for my son. It's enough to make you feel like you are losing your mind. So I do my feet joint and muscle strengthening exercises and I do them with my two year old!

The game. Put 10 marbles on the floor for you and 10 for your child. Put a bowl next to the marbles. You have to pick up the marbles with your toes and transfer them to the bowl. Whoever gets them all in first wins! this strengthens the tissues around your toe joints and works all of the little muscles in your foot. And my kid thinks it's hilarious and could do it for almost 15-20 minutes. That's a lot of time in Toddler time!

This exercise can also be effectively done with a towel if you are not trying to entertain children.