Esme has this weird 'process' behavior when she is playing often. It's what Mark calls her 'accountant' behavior. She will open every single marker in succession - putting the cap in a pile, drawing a line, standing up the marker in a line with the others, until all the markers are used. Then she draws for a few seconds to a minute - then we make her put them away if she is going to do something else.
But when she plays with her little figures the process does not take over - she plays with them riding horses and sitting in chairs and needing keys to get in the door of the house, riding in cars and flying in planes, eating food, taking baths in teacups and giving kisses and hugs. I love these Playmobil '1 2 3' figures we bought for her when she was about two. I had 'old' Playmobil when I was a kid (klicky) cowboys, horses and indians - so I was already biased towards them before I bought this set for her. I'm even more impressed now after a year or more.
Most of the figures have survived up until now because I was diligent about finding them when they were missing. Thus, she also finds it important to keep them where we can see them or help me find them when they are missing. They are easy to clean and hair and junk does not stick to them. None of them have ever come apart. She also has a family of older 'Loving family' dollhouse mom, dad and baby. They sometimes are included with the playmobil family (grandparents and little girls, baby, dog, horse, cow, pig) and the Schleich cat I bought her for Christmas as her entire 'family' set to have adventures with. Now, combined with the dollhouse and it's furniture (a used set given to her for Christmas by a 'Santa' Claus) they have chairs and beds and an oven to cook donuts in :)
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