The Same Thing

Fiona's gotten very into finding things that match lately. We'll be sitting in the living room and suddenly Fiona will come running out of her bedroom holding her Blue's Clues bedtime doll and her Blue's Clues washcloth to show them to us and exclaim "it's the same thing!" She likes to point out which of her socks and shoes match (though sometimes she still plays it very chic and puts on mismatched socks).

Sometimes she can be downright spooky, as when she took a look at the picture of Pooh and Piglet hugging on one of her dress hangers and then went and found the exact page in one of her Pooh bear books (she has about ten) that features a completely identical picture of Pooh and Piglet hugging.

Of course, for her Gen-X parents, what's most fun is that she can now play "one of these things is not like the others" on Sesame Street (side note: they've added an awful intro music to the one of these things sketch, which even Fiona can't stand--she cried when it came on yesterday. The actual "one of these things" song, however, is still used for the sketch itself and remains unchanged). She still gets confused sometimes--yesterday there were three pairs of sunglasses and a beach hat, but the sunglasses were all so different from one another that Fiona didn't figure out the answer--but then that's a nice reminder that the "one of these things" game is not something toddlers figure out every time right away.