Kaley Cuoco Jokes That Her Daughter Tildy Needs Her ‘Sometimes’ & Moms of Independent Toddlers Know the Struggle

It’s not easy being the mom of an independent toddler. When my eldest son was little, he didn’t want anybody to hold him — he was always in go, go, go mode! But sometimes — like when he was sick or feeling shy — he would get close to me and let me cuddle him, and I cherished every single second. That seems to be exactly how Kaley Cuoco is handling the feisty spirit of her 1-year-old daughter Matilda “Tildy” Carmine, who she shares with boyfriend Tom Pelphrey. The Big Bang Theory alum shared a new snapshot of a time her daughter still needed her, and it’s so sweet.

“She needs me sometimes????,” Cuoco wrote over a picture of her and Tildy on her Instagram story on Tuesday. (PEOPLE has a screenshot HERE.) In the photo, Cuoco wears a gray t-shirt, green linen pants, and a Nike baseball cap. She leans down to caress Tildy’s head, as she stands up and hugs her mom around the legs. Tildy looks adorable in a white t-shirt with gray overall shorts, white socks, and little brown slippers. They are in a room with space lights on the floor (maybe a children’s museum?), and Tildy looks awestruck at something off-camera. Being needed in this moment has to feel so special for Cuoco!

Last week, The Flight Attendant star shared a video featuring another sweet moment with her daughter. This time, Tildy was sitting with a friend or nanny, and smiling and dancing to Disney’s Encanto. “Innocently dancing,” Cuoco wrote on her Instagram story. “I can’t with her she is so sweet????????????”

When she isn’t making her mom cry out of pure sweetness, Tildy is making her laugh. ““I love her so much, I really do,” Cuoco told PEOPLE about her only child in January. “She is very funny. I think selfishly what I love the most is she finds me hilarious. I think she’s my best audience.”

She went on, “I never had more laughs than I do in our house with this baby. And I used to feel like I got a lotta laughs, but now with her, I am her 24/7 clown entertainment, and I love nothing more.”

What could be better?

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