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We have noticed that Britton has now developed a need to keep objects of interest in her grasp. I don't know if this is a result of daycare, wherein leaving a desired toy for even a minute means it's gone, but no longer is Britton content to put things down and return to them.

When making cookies with Grandma, she must hold all the utensils. Later she threw a tantrum thinking Grandma was taking away her empty chicken stock bottle (the horror!) while merely trying to undress her for her bath. You know, the bottle's not making it through those armholes. And the other night she wouldn't give up her corn cob from dinner, and proceeded to take it around the living room, playing with it, dropping it, taking bites every now and then. But at no point was she giving it up. It's the same with her necklaces, which she now wears EVERY DAY. I have to let her wear them into the tub, where I hide them under the bubbles and distract her with some washcloths.

She just has this fixation on her prized possession of the moment, and dang it all if she'll let it go. I don't know if this is the next step of development? In the past, she would leave things randomly, only to discover them when she returned. But now she is seeing that other people affect her world, and their actions affect what is in her world. It amazes me that she is putting all this together.