our little creature of habit

Scarlett's new game is to sit on the kitchen floor, on a towel, putting her bath friends in a big bowl of water, and a little pan of water next to it.  The bowl is a hot tub.  The pan is a swimming pool.  The rubber ducks swim around and dive and slide etc etc.  They go back & forth between the bowls.  Scarlett gets soaking wet.  She eats an apple- whole, not cut- while she does this.

The first time she did this, I was trying to occupy her while I did dishes, so I said, hey I have a fun new game wanna play?  She was eating an apple.  So now she plays the game while Charlie is doing dishes, and she insists on having an apple, even though she doesn't always eat it.

She's like this with many things.

1. We always walk around the block the same way.  It takes a lot of convincing her to take a left when we hit the four-way stop.
2. She likes walking into Aunt Sally's house by the front door, because there's a hanging plant there and she wants to see it every time.  Aunt Sally gave her one for Christmas too.  We usually use the back door at their house, but she's not having any of that.
3. For a long time she asked for a banana every morning, and ate it.  Then she kept asking for the banana but wouldn't eat them.  Finally we've stopped supplying bananas and she's taken to eating mostly yogurt, all day.
4. At the zoo last week, we bought her a snow cone for the first time.  So I anticipate many more snow cones at the zoo coming up.

 

First Snow Cone, of many