Ellie came to me this morning with a very small, pink, polly pocket shoe and asked, “is this a chokeable?” I told her that it was in fact, a ‘chokeable.’ She scurried away and returned with a rogue bead that had fallen off of one of her homemade necklaces and asked again, “is this a chokeable?” It was. She left the room. I followed her into her bedroom where she showed me a box of all of the ‘chokeable’ items she had collected from around the house. At first, I thought this was a really sweet gesture to her new baby sister, trying to keep her away from danger. I then wondered if maybe she was gathering a box of sure fire ways to choke Chloe and finally get my undivided attention. Hmmmm.