choking hazard

Summer has recently started eating solid foods. She loves the net and anything in it, loves puffs, especially the cheese kind and has just started coming around to baby food. For the first week or two all she wanted was the cheese puffs and I had gone through all this trouble in making organic baby food from scratch. I even got a book from the library, even though making baby food is pretty straight forward. Blend everything.
I was pretty proud of myself though, I made sweet potato and apple and boiled a cinnamon stick in with it to give it a little extra something and I also made carrot and apple baby food.  I blended it then put it in these little ice cube trays and we use them as needed. Its pretty ingenious if you ask me, I have to give my friend Angela all the credit, she is the super mom who told me all about it. It would be even more timesaving if I had a microwave! I have to double broiler that 3 times a day, but that's ok. Summer is enjoying this new freedom to taste test things as she sees fit. Baby food, the carpet, my leg and shoulder, the dogs and of course all her toys are on the menu everyday. Its completely normal and encouraged in our house as it is a way for babies to experience their environment and keep those little chompers that are coming in feeling ok. The other morning I really had to go to the bathroom so I ran upstairs with her bouncing in my arms and tossed her in her crib with a bunch of her toys. I didn't hear an upset peep out of her, lots of babbling and giggling. I got out and picked her up, when I picked her up I thought I saw a flash of white in her mouth, but thought no way, there isn't anything for her to put into her mouth in here. The crib is a safe zone, obviously. So I grabbed a diaper and took her over to the changing area and laid her out on her back. Ever the explorer, she immediately flipped over to her belly and tried to dive off the couch, I grabbed her and put her back on her back. At this point she started to cry and then I realized that she did indeed have something stuck to the roof of her mouth. I gasped and did the mouth scoop. A fucking TY beanie baby tag, chewed up and folded in half was stuck to the roof of her mouth. I almost died. I went into immediate 'what ifs': what if she had choked on that while I was in the bathroom? She could've died! What if I had put her down for a nap with that thing! I never would have known until maybe hours later! I was almost hysterical. I started searching for the culprit. It came down to a little Dalmatian beanie baby ironically named 'Rescue'. Interesting. I had to bring myself to the present and stop obsessing about the stupid toy, nothing happened. I scooped it out of her mouth and she had no idea that could've choked and it would've been my fault. Everybody is fine. Ugh.
Ive now officially check all her toys for possible choking hazards and am happy to report all is well.
Parenting is not for the faint of heart.

 Cheers.