I took the kids to Toys R Us this morning in search of Walle toys. The movie opened today and Mitch has been dying for some sort of Walle-box-toy-type thing. When we got to the store I waisted no time and asked the first person who worked there if they had Walle toys and where they were. According to this person we were lucky we came at 10am because he said by noon most of the toys are gone. Mitch was so thrilled when he saw them and picked out his new Walle box which he proclaimed was "just what he always wanted"!!
With only 3 weeks until Megan's birthday I thought we would shop around a little and see what caught her eye in hopes of getting some ideas for her. Nothing really set off any bells until we rounded the Barbie aisle...and then the she saw them...the plastic dolls, standing up straight and skinny in their sleek cardboard boxes and she pointed at one dressed in a bikini and said, "I hab dat!!" I handed it to her and as a mom that played with Barbies until the age of 12(maybe 13) I knew Barbie was going home with us.
So today, Walle and Barbie moved in to our house. Walle rolls all over the place and makes funny noises and Barbie, who once had beautiful hair, now has a tangled mass of blonde hair. I sat on the floor with the kids for a long time and took it all in, wondering what they were thinking and remembering long ago lazy summer days of playing Barbies ALL summer long.
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