Kimmie's New Collection

I've mentioned before that Kimmie is a collector. For a while it was Care Bears. She would pick a color and we would have to search high and low for that color Care Bear. As soon as she had that one she would pick another color. We were saved from that obsession when they were taken off the market. But there's only a couple of them that we are missing.

Several months ago Kimmie came up with something new she wanted. A Star Wars light saber sword. I looked at them in the store and they are about four feet long. Almost as long as Kimmie is tall. Why do they make these things so long? Kids could do some real damage. I was looking for one much shorter, but the short ones only come in a set with a long one.

Anyway. Kimmie spotted the set with the short and long one when she was at the store with me one day. She jumped out of the cart (as in the bench seat at the back of an extra long cart--NOT the basket part of the cart, that's a scary thought), grabbed the box and put it under her arm. In other words, nobody's getting this away from her without a fight (or screaming fit). So she became the proud owner of a set of Star Wars light saber swords that light up, and the long one makes noise. Blue light saber swords. They also had red ones on the shelf.

Well, she enjoyed the blue ones for several months, and then she started in with "red". So now we have two sets of light saber swords. She especially enjoys holding the short ones and having one for each hand. It takes two hands for her to handle the long ones.

When she has the short ones in each hand it looks like she might be ready to direct airport traffic, or play the drums, or direct a music and light show.

Thankfully, I have not seen any other colors but red and blue.

--Mom

More about Christmas

We gauge the success of Christmas by whether Kimmie actually plays with her new toys. Often when she receives new toys she will poke at them for a minute or two and then never touch them again. (Except to dump them into a heap on the floor, just cause everything has to be on the floor.) This Christmas was a success. She is still playing with many of her new gifts.

Four days after Christmas and we are still watching Danny Phantom DVDs. She is still wallowing with her new Pooh fleece blanket. She is still playing with her black genie lamp. She has played with her new Geomag sticks that are a new color, neon pink and orange. She continues to look at her new books.

And her new Care Bears and panda bear have joined the others that get moved around the room. First they are tossed out of the basket and over her shoulder. Then they might be picked up and tossed on the sofa. Then she might climb onto the sofa and push them all onto the floor. Later she might pick them all up and load them in her "Santa bag" (see previous post), also known as her Pooh bag since it is a Pooh Bear pillowcase. Her "Santa bag" is usually carried to another location in the room and then dumped out.

Christmas, part one, was a success. We will see how part two goes when we have more Christmas on New Years Day.

--Mom

Kimmie's Santa Bag

In an earlier post I wrote about how Kimmie moves her stuffed animals from her room to the family room by tossing them down the stairs. This is very effective for the larger ones. She has another method she sometimes uses for the smaller ones. She takes her pillowcase off her pillow and fills it up. We call it her Santa Bag. She fills it up and then gathers the opening closed in her hand and hauls it off.

This last time we didn't bother to carry the pillowcase back upstairs, so she plays with it every night. She gathers her small Care Bears and panda bears, tosses them all in the bag, and then carries it around. When she settles someplace, she dumps them out, plays with them for a while and then loads the bag back up.

We always laugh because it looks so much like an overstuffed Santa bag. When she heard us calling it her Santa bag she was confused. She told us it was Kimmie's bag. Her sister asked her if she was going to throw it over her shoulder. Kimmie tried to lift it up to her shoulder but couldn't quite figure out how to get it over her shoulder.

We enjoy watching her play.

--Mom

Kimmie the Collector

Kimmie is a collector. We first noticed this when she wanted the green Care Bear "Good Luck Bear". We searched everywhere for one. Finally we found it and gave it to her. She hugged it, kissed it, and then threw it aside and signed "blue Care Bear". Every time she received a new one, she would think of another color. I've lost track of how many 9" Care Bears she has. After those she moved on to the larger ones that come with DVDs.

Kimmie also collects stuffed pandas, teddy bears, anything Pooh bear and Geomag sticks.

--Mom