Look Who's Coming to Dinner...

OK this photo is a month and a half old, but I love it. It was taken during the period I now refer to as "Anna's Fishie Rearrangement Obsession" (AFRO). For the record, Anna absolutely adores all the Nemo and various other fishie figurines that she has been given. In the weeks immediately after her birthday, she spent HOURS each day arranging them in various houses, elevators, buses, ponds, and trucks. And then she rearranged them. And she still does! Just not all day long. Thank goodness for preschool.

And because I feel the Obesession part of this is pretty much behind us, I am happy to post this "fishie house" photo montage. I am sure you'll get a sense of the numerous levels of hierarchy and detailed classification schemes Anna employed to keep things organized.

At one point, the fishie house housed not only Nemo fishies and their Nemo fishie babies but also two sets of sea creatures figurines, the 3 snap-on watch faces from the Nemo watch she received for her birthday, 8 party favor sqeezeable plastic bath fishies, at least 8 Nemo bubble blowers, 5 Nemo cards from the Nemo aquarium from Aunt Stacy gave her, 3 expired Metro cards, her NY Public Library card, 12 "magic grow" sponge fishies, one Nemo keychain, and 10 purple index card halves each bearing one Nemo bubble sticker.

(click on the photo for a larger view)



top left: Dusk at the Fishie House After a Particularly Grueling Day (note the turtle)
bottom left: Sunrise at the Fishie House
top right: We've Moved! During the Day, Fishies Sit In Their ZooPals Paper Plates Rooms!
bottom right: Fishies Napping. Finally Mommy Can Watch Heffalump.

I'm sure you'll agree: it was all worth it.