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I suppose my daughter's first obsession was books. At around 1 year old she would wake us up not by yelling "Mommy" or "Daddy", but by yelling "Book!"

Somewhere around 18 months of age the picture book dictionary became her favorite book. She seems to want to know every word in the English language. So you could say she is obsessed with words.

Currently at 29 months, she's pretty interested in the first moon landing (Apollo 11). There's a page in her children's encyclopedia devoted to it, which she makes me read quite often. I recently thought to show her a video of it, and got confirmation that she's been paying attention. She pointed to the screen and said "There's the lunar module."

Other topics of interest include bones and birds. In a couple weeks I'm going to take her to a zoo and she'll see an ostrich. She's pretty excited for that.

This sounds alot like my DD4.5. Something will excite her and just MUST tell you thisveryinstant! Her passion for the world itself is very fun to watch.

She is also very into music, singing and talking. She sings or talks to herself almost constantly...I wonder if she is trying to keep herself company while her sister, 8, is at school.

And being a princess

DAD22, which children's encyclopedia do you have? We have a Children's Dictionary and DD loves it. I think the encyclopedia may be a big hit too!

Jumping in here: My son loves his Franklin talking dictionary.

Sorry I didn't see this earlier.

We have the DK First Encyclopedia, as well as the DK First Nature Encyclopedia. Both of those are well loved. We have a children's Atlas too, but that isn't as well loved.

I think the DK First Encyclopedia just went through an update. Mine still lists Pluto as a planet, and discusses the Concord as though it is still in use.

My daughter's interest in space has expanded to the planets too, now. I'm planning her first trip to the Air and Space Museum for this weekend. I just hope that she can enjoy it with so many other children there... she's very shy.

Edit:
I think I'm wrong about the update. Everything I see lists the publishing date as 2002.

DS2 changes obsessions frequently. We've gone through clowns, spiders, dinosaurs, swords, scary sea animals, insects, skeletons, sports equipment, teeth, and his newest is poisonous frogs. The only two that have endured are a love of all balls/spheres, water, and of orquestras/instruments. Whenever we go out he looks for a new type of ball to add to his collection.

DD4 is obsessed with dolphins. She even told everyone that I was having a baby dolphin when I was pregnant with DD3mo. She was a pink Amazon River Dolphin for Halloween when all of her friends were princesses. (She does love a good princess, though.) She can tell you all the types and facts. On her birthday, she said "Yes! One more year until I can pet the dolphins!" She is also obsessed with Taylor Swift. Most kids her age have no interest in pop music. She knows all the songs and which cd they are on, as well as, which number they are. (She was memorizing the numbers of kid songs on cds at 18 months.) I have no musical talent, but my husband plays the cello and the piano by ear, as well as the mandolin. DD is dying for a real guitar like Taylor Swift. We'll see about that! She is the only kid I know who begged to stay up late to watch the Grammys.

The ocean. The ocean. The ocean. Did I mention the ocean?

DS4 obsession right now is geography. He knows every single US state and state capital without hesitating one second. Learned it in a few days. Also working on the world capitals at the moment and keeps asking me to quiz him. He gets long pieces from the rolls of paper we have and draws the whole world map over and over again. (I have lost count how many rolls we have gone though in the past month..)

Still also obsessed with writing. He is currently writing a "novel" about himself in the "100 acre woods". The pad has 200 pages and he has gone through about 150 of them. He also writes on the above mentioned roll of paper...for hours and hours on end..

Currently: meteors.