Movie Collection

I’ve talked about Kimmie’s propensity to be a collector. I’ve told you about her Care Bear collection and Star Wars sword collection, but I don’t think I’ve told you about her biggest collection—MOVIES.

Kimmie loves to buy DVDs. Kimmie loves to shop and whenever we go shopping she thinks she has to buy a movie. Unfortunately, she has so many movies that we often have trouble finding one she doesn’t already own.

Kimmie always wants to be the one to choose which movie to buy, but she will often pick something that we already have at home. This creates A LOT of drama. When we tell her we already have that movie, she simply doesn’t understand and cries when we won’t let her buy it. We don’t know if she thinks it is her movie that is somehow at the store instead of at home or what? It seems to be one of those reasoning things that she can’t quite understand.

When we buy a movie, she usually opens it in the car on the way home. She likes to open the box and see the round disk inside. And she likes the disk to be straight up and down, lined up just right in the box. She fixes it that way if it is not.

Now, when we get home, she may or may not watch the movie. Sometimes she just wants to look at the pictures on the box. Sometimes she will simply carry the box around, look at the pictures, point at them and talk about them.

She will often open the DVD cabinet and sit in front of it, pulling out boxes, looking at the pictures and talking to herself.

She’s a funny girl.

--Mom