Obsession

I've been meaning to post about Kilynn's obsession for a while now so that I can have a record of this thing that is a part of who she is now. It started back in early fall during canning season. I needed a "babysitter" every now and then so I could get that last batch of this or that in the canner. The babysitter I found was Whinney the Pooh! Pooh Bear did an amazing job of holding her rapt attention via youtube. When canning season was over, the TV (computer) was largely turned off and that's when I started noticing the deep interest Kilynn had taken in the show. I watched her in her play as she began to assign existing stuffed animals to different pooh bear rolls. We already by chance had a Piglet and a Tigger, and she added the elephant on the left as Lumpy the Heffalump, the Care bear as Pooh Bear, and the little finger puppet (which I think is supposed to be a bear) as Roo.

During The October General Conference, Kilynn saw me doodling on a paper and asked me to draw a picture of Pooh Bear. I whipped out the Pooh you see below which led to the drawing of Piglet etc...

 I did have to look at something to draw all the others after those two, but I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself for drawing these. I'm not an artist and this probably constitutes my best art achievement ever! At least Kilynn was pleased. We drew them throughout General Conference and she was giggling the whole time I drew. I colored them, cut them out and glued them to pieces of cardboard. She then played with them and didn't stop playing with them for several months! They literally etertained her from the time she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night for just about three months. Her favorite characters by far were these:

Good thing I had this picture because now Kanga is headless and Roo is lost. Kilynn loved how Roo could go in Kanga's pouch and she loved pretending the mother and child relationship between them. For Christmas we bought the Kanga and Roo stuffed animals. That is when she stopped playing with my homemade paper ones so much. She has become almost inseperable from her Kanga and Roo. After opening her gifts on Christmas morning, that was the only gift that she cared about and she didn't let them out of her sight and really didn't let go of them at all for three days. She is still very attached to them. She plays with them every day and sleeps with them at night. They go on lots of pretend adventures. She comes up to me at least once a week and says, "Thank you for my Christmas present Mom!" Apparently she doesn't believe Santa gave them to her. She's a grateful girl though!