Just like everything else in her seven plus years, though, she becomes fixated on one type of book. She's always gone through phases with her various obsessions (Thomas the Train, Care Bears, Disney Princesses, Lalaloopsy, and on and on), and it's no different with books. First it was Magic Treehouse. Now it's mysteries, specifically Ron Roy mysteries. Last week I went to the library and got several different types of mystery series books to try and get her to branch out. She's found another series she likes, called "Greetings from Somewhere," but so far there are only two books available in this series, she's read them both, and they're very easy for her. Once she read both of those, she went back to Ron Roy's books. The next Greetings from Somewhere book isn't coming out until May. So I'm hoping she'll finish Ron Roy's books soon and move on to something else (she doesn't have all that many Ron Roy books left to read). She was excited about the new series I brought home, but we'll see if any of them catch her interest. I'm just happy that she's loving to read.
Rebecca chooses the same books over and over. She mostly chooses books about characters she recognizes from TV or movies, so I have to choose other ones and force them on her to get her interested in something else. Then she'll want them read to her over and over for days on end. For awhile it was Apple Farmer Annie. She's had that book out from the library multiple times. Sometimes it will be one of the classics--The Three Little Pigs, or The Three Bears, or Hansel and Gretel, or something like that. Rachel used to love Curious George. Rebecca doesn't seem interested in him at all. Right now she has the Essential Guide to the movie, Frozen, and the Essential Guide from the movie The Incredibles, and she wants a page or two read from one of those all the time.
Buttons....Rebecca has this thing against buttons. I don't know how or why or when it started, exactly, but a few months ago she started complaining about her PJs with buttons. Every time we'd put a pair on her that buttoned, she'd get all bent out of shape. Finally, rather than arguing about it every time, I just quietly n packed all of the button PJs away (she was outgrowing them, anyway) and when I got out the next size, I didn't take out the buttoned PJs. But then, she branched out from complaining about PJs, to talking about Daddy's work shirts. Daddy wears a blue button down collar shirt to work every day, and every day she'd complain, "Why do you always have to wear buttons?" When I wear a buttoned shirt, she makes it known that she doesn't like it (most of my PJs have buttons, too, so unless I have my robe on over them in the morning, she doesn't want to sit on my lap. If I'm wearing my robe, then it's okay). She has a pair of pants with button details at the ankle, and every time I put them on her, she complains. I don't know why she dislikes them so much--she doesn't have a reason when you ask her. Just a random quirk of my funny girl. Kind of like how Rachel's always hated jeans and asks for "soft pants" every time I tell her to wear jeans (she will wear jeans, now though, as opposed to a couple of years ago, when she would put up a huge fuss about them.)
Rachel's decided (again) that she wants to let her bangs grow out. She decided the same thing about a year ago, we started letting them grow, had to start pinning them back once they were in her eyes, and she then decided she wanted bangs again. She hates wearing clips or headbands in her hair, so she decided she'd rather have bangs than wear something in her hair while they grew out. Well, now she's sick of her cowlick, which is only getting more pronounced as she gets older, and wants to grow out the bangs again. So we'll see how long she lasts. I've told her it means she'll have to wear clips and headbands again, so we'll see. It'll probably take all summer, at the very least.
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