Lily's New Obsession

Lily has developed a new behavior lately. She has become VERY interested in putting things into any sort of container...especially the trash! It was really cute at first...on Sunday night she was helping me pick up the potatoes skins that had missed the trash can. She would pick one up at a time and threw it away for me. We thought it was great! "Look...our daughter knows how to clean!" Oh how wrong were we! Since Sunday she has become obsessed with the trash. She throws everything away. We've found her binky in the trash, toys, bottles...and the latest today...I caught her throwing our shoes away! It's nice that I can give her a napkin and tell her to throw it away now, but we are also going to have to go though the trash before we put it out for pickup! Just our luck she'll throw away something important, and we'll miss it!

It's not just the trash though. She's also become obsessed with the container we keep the cat food in. For the past couple of weeks she's been lifting up the cover and pulling out hands fulls of cat food to throw on the floor. The cats love it of course and come running to clean up the mess. Late last week she started taking the cup (that we use as a scope to put the food in the cats bowl) and putting a couple of handfuls of food in it, then taking it over to empty in the cats food bowl! Again I thought "Great...we can teach her to feed the cats!" Nope...wrong again! She'll then sit down at their bowl and fill the cup back up with their food, and bring it back to the cat food container. Then today I caught her putting other things in the container that holds the cat food. She emptied a box of instant oatmeal, and took the packets one at a time over to the cat food container, and threw them in. I guess it could be worse...she could have thrown them in the trash!! Then once she had run out of oatmeal packets, she went back to the food containers and dug the packets out, one at a time, throwing them on the floor.

Now if only I can get her to put her toys away in the toy box! :)

Here are some more pictures from today. Playing with manual focus again. I'm still not that happy with my results.

As you can tell, Lily's dressed for the election today...representing both parties! Again we urge you, don't forget to get out and vote! Sean and I have already voted, have you?