Paint it red

Zeke has a favorite color: red. Everything he talks about is red. Everything he wants is red. Frequently he asks for specific things in red, but usually just to tease me. For a few days, he took a flashlight to bed with him. We don't actually want to let him sleep with our regular flashlight so we went to find him his own. We get to the store and I find an LED flashlight with rechargeable batteries -- really the perfect flashlight for a kid who will likely have the thing on for hours -- and I'm excited because it is red and this is exactly what we came to the store for. Nope. Zeke then says he doesn't want the red one. The same thing happened with shoe shopping today. He asked for red. I got red Crocs out, and then he told me no.

Still, he mainly will pick red things at home: the red cup, the red marker or crayon, the red Lego. Red, red, red!