Trash is a Wonderful Thing.

Congratulations to Katie she is officially 11 months old today! Her newest and latest thing to do is to empty the trash cans. She finds the things we discard very entertaining. It begins by tipping the trash can over. She is not discriminating in her trash cans, any trash can with objects inside will do, the the more full the trash can the better.

After tipping the trash can over she then begins to methodically remove the trash, stopping at any object that seems interesting. Frequently found items include paper, bags from stores, clothing tags and stickers, plastic, and empty boxes. Today she tipped over the trash can in my closet and found empty shampoo bottles, which was a real find.

Favorite items to find include candy wrappers, because they have bright colors and make cool noises. Gold medal finds are used bandaids or used gum, because they are small enough to go in the mouth, and quite unusual. We expect the trash can tipping to continue for quite some time, and she is available for hire if you need your garbage sorted through. Smells don't seem to bother her.

These are the a few of the objects fished out of Katie's mouth in the last week.

You will notice that the letter "e" is similar to the letter "g" from last week. For Lauren's birthday party in February she and her friends decorated gift bags with foam letters. I was under the impression that I had picked up all the foam letters however in the the last two weeks Katie has managed to locate two letters I missed. The purple object below the letter and to the right is a Skittle. She was most upset when I removed that item. Notice the money, a perennial favorite in the mouth, although this was a plastic play coin as opposed to the normal metal coin I remove on a regular basis. The object to the left of the money is a piece of bark, found in the mud room.