Big Rankin, Little Rankin

Ainsley has many favorite books now a days but she really likes Big Dog, Little Dog by P. D. Eastman. (She also calls it Fred and Ted, the names of the characters in the book.) She really likes how each dog has it's own color and their own size things. She's translated this book into what has been going on at our house lately, Big Rankin, LIttle Rankin. Yes, she's handled the transition well but is emphatic about her size things versus Andrew's size things. The fact that she is big and Andrew is small. She has some idea that her stuff is pink and Andrew's is blue, but her favorite color is blue so this has caused some confusion.

She has also really gotten into matching colors lately. So we try to match the color of our clothes to each other, we match random items to what we are wearing, we play the "matching game" (Memory, and let me tell you she is good!), and we match that activities we are doing (if I'm cooking/she pretend cooks, if I'm on the phone/she has her pretend phone. You get the picture.)

Some other little nuisances of hers have come out in the past few weeks. I'm really glad to se eher developing into her own little person with preferences, even if some of them have been trying.

Here's the cover picture to her book, "Big Rankin, Little Rankin."

From The Rankin Family