Making her list and checking it twice

Everywhere she goes, Claire is now accompanied by her pen and paper.  Since she was a baby she was always interested in my shopping lists at the store.  It got to the point where Mark had to push the grocery cart she was in because she was constantly trying to wrestle the pen and paper out of my hand.  We've always keep the pads of paper and pens in a top drawer in the kitchen, but now she's tall enough to reach in and grab them herself. 

Jack's been working on writing his letters at home and Claire isn't one to be left out.  She'd grab her paper and scribble and say "Look at my Js!"  The letter J was the first one Jack learned to write so he would practice on the chalkboard and say "Look at my Js!"  Claire wants to do everything he does.

Now, this scribbling on her paper has turned into making lists which I think got started when she saw me making a shopping list.  So now she gets her pen and paper ready and says "what else, Mommy?"  I'll say "What about grapes?" and she'll scribble it onto the "list."  Then it's "what else, Mommy?"  This game can go on for a very long time.  The problem is, she's very picky about what goes onto the list.  Lots of times my suggestions are met with "We don't need__________!" or "already have _______!"  She never lets you repeat an item for the list and she has a memory like a steel trap so even if I suggested an item three days ago, she remembers.  I'm starting to run out of things to add!