the best kid

elenora loves holding small objects. she always has. you can look back through the blogs at the photos and in almost all of the photos she has something in each of her precious fists.

flowers, rocks, chapsticks, little toy dolls, pom-poms, barrettes... these are all things that she loves to hold. when we go out on walks she fills her fists and pockets with rocks and pine cones. i find them everywhere around the house, and they are so darling to me that i have a hard time throwing them away.

now that she has learned how to open the chapstick, she is practically addicted to putting it on over and over again until either j. or i confiscate it. once when i was in the kitchen cooking dinner i noticed she was being quieter than usual, so i peeked into the living room and she was dabbing chapstick on each of her dolls.

so sweet.