OCD or Latent Orphanage Behavior

One of the things on notice on the International Adoption boards when people ask parenting questions is the fact that it's hard to determine if a behavior our children have is "normal",
due to being post-instutional, or just some weird quirk our children have.

Igor has some "quirks" which are just so bizarre for a two year old to have, you tell me orphanage hang up or just him?

Loves to put things in garbage, if the kid finds lint, piece of paper, candy wrapper etc on the floor you can bet it's in the garbage. Don't drop anything important in my house. It has it's perks but why he's so crazy about doing it is beyond me. Wish he'd decide vaccuming was that much fun, there's tons of dog hair.

Food on his face is a major issue for him. Most two year olds I've met could run around with spaghetti ear to ear for two weeks and care less, not this one. If he gets food on his face while eating he'll take his spoon and scrape it off, much like you do when you feed an infant.

MUST have his coat zipped up and the hood up whenever it's on, don't dare just unzip it and take the hood off when you are in a store, the whole coat must come off and don't just slip it on w/o zipping it up.

The kid is fearless when it comes to many ordinary kid fears. During baths he'll take a cup and purposefully dump it right on his face, even I don't like that. Igor LOVES to have dad toss him in the air and catch him - lots of kids do- but upside down and facing away from the thrower? He says "GO" "GO" and would do it all day.

These are but a few of the odd things we've noticed lately. Mostly they are harmless and we hope he'll outgrow them. We do worry about the fearless on though, kids should have a little fear of stuff.

Well I'm trying to cook so I better cut this post short before I burn something.