Mike has so many toys that we have an entire room dedicated to them. And even with the “play room”, we only get a few toys out at once. Otherwise, Mike goes completely ADD on us. He’ll play with a toy for 2.8 seconds before moving on to the next. And the next thing you know, all 185,284 toys have been thrown about the room by the “boy tornado”.
And I find all of this interesting. Perhaps someone should study adults and why they provide so many toys for their children. Particularly when children seem to be happier with toys that aren’t really toys. Like the lid from the disposable “tupperware” container (they are 4 for $1 – and the four “magic toy lids” also come with four bowls. Bonus!). Perhaps some budding psychology major needs a research idea for their PhD thesis.
But I have digressed completely! I meant to talk about Mike’s new favorite “toy”. Which isn’t the tupperware lids (that was SO last week!). And it’s not really a toy at all. It’s his rocking chair!
Mike wasn’t sure what to think about it for the first couple of weeks that we had it. Then, one day he realized that he could get in to the chair “all by myself”. And this suited him (and his newly developed independent streak) very nicely! Shortly after that, he realized that he could also get back out of the chair without assistance. Suddenly, the chair was becoming a symbol of things he could do “all by myself”. And – what’s this? It also rocks? Holy moly, batman! This thing just keeps getting better and better! And the latest in the the “rocking chair bag of tricks”? It scoots across the floor and Mike can push it to wherever suits him.
Check out my new rocking chair!
“I can get in it all by my self!”
“This thing ‘rocks’!!!!!”
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