I decided to take the kids over to see what all the fuss was about conveniently getting them out of the house before they noticed any of their old toys had made it to the sale table. They have a really hard time letting go of old toys. Unfortunately, when we returned the sale had not been as successful as we had hoped and David zeroed in on the kitty keyboard that was the bane of our existence for about six months before we retired it to the basement (where we put excess toys away to see if the boys really miss them before retiring them in a more permanent fashion). He didn't notice it was gone, but he sure did notice it was on the sell table.....now it's back in the playroom and we have to start all over again.
Disclaimer: We don't make it a habit to sneakily get rid of beloved toys but if you buy us a keyboard that has the option to go into "cat" mode and instead of piano noises you get "meows," we will hide it from the children and/or take the batteries out and fain ignorance when they ask why it's "broken".........
Just so you know I'm not a completely hateful toy snatching mom, while we were checking out the other garage sale extravaganza I did give each of the boys one dollar to hunt for treasures with. The last time we went garage sale-ing David picked out a completely reasonable little metal car and Henry chose a sweet earless horse. This time....things didn't work out as well. David chose this 25 cent wonder:
Don't be fooled, this may look like a harmless Fisher Price train-on-a-string, but no--it's a Christmas Fisher Price train-on-a-string and as we began to walk away with our new prize it began to sing Christmas carols......David was beyond excited....."your welcome!" yelled the mom who had just rid herself of this monstrosity....thanks other mom.....thanks a lot......
The trip wasn't a total disaster though. I found this "pirate ship" (according to Henry's keen nautical eye) for $10. I have no idea what model ships are worth but this looked really neat and I'm planning on putting it in the boys room as soon as they realize it's not a toy.....so maybe never........
Chris decided to go into school today to get ahead in his studying so we can take a couple of three day weekends in June so the boys and I walked down to our local Memorial Day parade by ourselves. I think it's the first parade they've been to where they really understood what was happening--they thought it was pretty much the best thing ever.......
I'm not sure but I think David might have been enjoying himself......
......right up until the percussion section passed by..........
They were only mildly upset that there wasn't a single piece of candy thrown during the whole parade. I didn't realize you could have a parade and not throw candy at the spectators but apparently you can, I don't know why you'd want to though.........