Treasures

Chebbles has started a new habit of collecting "treasures" from around the house, and storing them in various receptacles.

Her Easter baskets have all been repurposed as treasure holders, as has any wicker basket, or little purse or backpack she can get her mitts on.

She refuses to leave the house now, or even to go room to room, without fistfuls of "treasure." Her main treasures consist of some beaded bracelets, the sparkly cape from a My Little Pony character, some clip-on earrings and a jeweled ring, a blue Beanie Baby bear, a pacifier clip, a red star-shaped teether that a neighbor baby left here and a blue Lego-like toy she purloined from her friend M.'s house during his Seder.

Treasure that she covets but is not allowed in her rotation includes all of my lip balm and lip gloss, a bottle of "personal lubricant" she found and my wedding rings. Oh she wants those rings soooo bad.

Today we were about to take a walk with Grandpa, and she was going to take her tricycle. But I informed her that, if she took her tricycle, she would not be able to bring ANY TREASURE along with her. So she elected to jump in the stoller, so that she could clutch her treasures without any interruption.

She has commandeered several pieces of furniture as treasure-holders. So at lunch today, she turned to me and said, "Mama, where are my earrings?"

And I went straight to my nightstand, opened the little drawer, and pulled them out. Her mismatched pair of clip-ons, the flowered one from Gogo and the Ariel one we bought at Target, I found them all right, and she expertly snapped them on her earlobes and continued eating her lunch.