The other day while we were shopping Daniel noticed that Christmas had already come to Walmart, so naturally we went over to see. Before long we discovered all of the noisemaking Christmas "toys" -- the seals singing "Let it Snow," Santa on a Harley, a grandfather bear reading the story from the Bible, and some unknown creature singing some Christmas song I had never before heard.
He pushed buttons slowly at first, and I followed behind him, "shushing" the ones that we had passed. However, after a while I just let him go at it, and WOW! the cacophony!! But, it was early, the store wasn't crowded, and we will never own one of those, so I figured it was best to just get it all out of his system at once.
He enjoyed it, I got a good laugh, and we both left feeling some sense of accomplishment. Quite a successful outing.
2 comments:
The sense of accomplishment is so funny! Something about pushing buttons just makes me happy. :) And to hit an entire aisle? That's a job well done. Thanks for the good image and healthy guffah. :)
I'm totally with you on the no noise toys. The gift we got for Seth actually had noise funtions, but we secretly disabled that the night before. Good riddance. And hello to all the wonderful play that happens when the noise if off, because when a toy makes noise, the entire focus of play becomes 'making it do that noise thing' and they forget that they can (and normally do) use their imagination to play with it a million other ways. Besides, the absense of loud repetitive electronic sounds is always a good thing. :)
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