I think I should start a column called "todays Random objects Elana plays with" about all the things that aren't toys that keep Elana amused for hours.
A few minutes ago I commenced the "tidyup" before Nick gets home. This involves me picking up all the "toys" out of the hallway so Daddy doesn't trip on anything.
Most of the time it's just picking up the magnetic letters and putting them back on the fridge and picking up some blocks that had been strewn back in the box but today as I looked around the atomic blast that hit my house I noticed more then just the general chaos.
There were my stilleto heels in the hall between the bathroom and the toilet where she'd left them after carrying them around the house periodically through the day, there was Alex's resident evii dvd that he'd leant Nick to watch that Elana claimed as her own (also in the hall between the WC and bathroom) up the hallway were Nick's spare drumsticks, a piece of leather he uses as a spare pad, half a jatz biscuit, half a dozen letters and blocks, 1 pink sock, a pair of red shorts, her hair brush, the stuffed giraffe thing she got from my grandad for xmas one of Nick's shirts that she got out of the laundry basket and a discarded dummy.
Also today she threw her other dummy out of her bedroom window (and now Nick's home I better go get it)
Random objects that aren't toys
Stilleto heels
2 pink plastic cups
a lid from a boost
a lid from a yogurt container
a lid from a jar of baby food
a dvd
drum sticks
piece of leather
and laundry
and that's just today