What are your children's obsessions?

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And by that I mean real pure obsessions.
My 3 year-old DS has been nurturing a passionate love for toilets/hand-dryer for about 18 months (the cute "phase" turns out to be rather tiring). Wherever we go (playgroups, playgrounds, swimming pool, zoo, restaurant...), he first locates the toilets and then will do everything in his power to trick us to go here. A year ago, I was thinking potty training would be a ball. Well no!
Anyone with this kind of thing?

This thread makes me feel so much better. DS has a obsessive personality (much like me ]

He loves washing machines, wheels, aeroplances. It used to be windows (blame bloody Tikkabilla...) but thankfully he is over that one now

Dd used to have an obsession with outside taps and water fountains when she was about three. We lived in Paris at the time and soon began to realise that these things are EVERYWHERE. Parks, playgrounds, street corners - she found them all, even the ones concealed in bushes - she would have made an excellent water diviner. Having located the water source she would then stand under it. In the end just gave in to the obsession - bought plastic shoes and took a change of clothes - much less stressful than trying to keep her away (although needless to say we attracted lots of disapproving looks). And of course she grew out of it - in fact I'd completely forgotten about it until I saw this thread.

Thomas The Tank Engine, not just a normal obsession, he can spot him a mile off and when he gets an item of clothing with thmoas on or a toy he has to keep the tags or boxes and we are not allowed to throw anything away. It is his birthday tomorrow he will be 2 we have requested no presents to be wrapped in Thomas paper as we can't cope with the trauma when he has to 'tear' him to get the present out!

ds...lego (used to be trains). He has asd though so the train one is fairly common..lego less so
dd...nothing..she's not really 'into' anything obsessively.

Troutpout ds1 HFA) loves hi lego too, actually so does dh, its pretty much the only 'play' DS1 does tbh

dd 3.9 asking "can i have an OLDER brother"

ds 2.2 - bins and skips and watching the weather forecast on TV or downloaded from the BBC website.

And the tea strainer and his dad's sport wristbands.

IKWYM O/outstanding

DS knows name of every single TTTE engine. He is 3 in 2 days and has been obsessed since 18mo. Most of his conversation involves TTTE stories and he talks from morning to night!
Good luck with the wrapping paper, I'll be thinking of you!

bins. 16 month old ds will take anything he can and put it in the bin. we just have to watch nothing valuable (keys, bags, mobiles) go along with it. he will point to them as we go down the street, locate the nearest bin in anyone's home/cafe/public place and stand next to it going "bi, bi, bi". his favourite place is the local hardware store and its enormous range of Brabania bins with the flippy lids. He would live there if he could. (wonder if they'd mind?? )

sorry Brabantia. time to go to bed.