“Lots of Toys”

This morning we slept in. Spencer woke up crying around midnight last night and I ended up just falling asleep on his bed with him… usually we get up by 7 every day, but today we slept until close to 9 and it was fantastic.

Jordan saw on the news that Toys R Us might be closing all of their stores in the next few weeks and decided we needed to take Spencer there while we still have a chance. Spencer calls it “Lots of Toys” and can’t talk about it without referring to the time he got sick there on his birthday (“I puke at Lots of Toys!”) When we pulled up in the car today, he cheerfully declared “no I’m not feeling sick!”

We walked around and played in there for at least an hour. Spencer carried around a bucket of plastic sharks before changing his mind once we got to the section with all the toy cars. He picked two cars (well, one car and one snowmobile) and started running for the registers. The cashier was a really nice guy and told us he has 7 kids at home.

We walked next door to Pure Hockey after that and Spencer tried on a bunch of different gloves. His favorite was the pink one.

We went to the mall after that and Spencer played on the playground. He’s in a phase right now where he is having trouble sharing (imagine that), so whenever we go to a playground he runs up to his favorite toys and whines if another kid is playing with it (“that’s MINE car!”) He took a liking to a little girl at the playground who didn’t want him to play with her and he kept running around after her.

It’s hard for me to imagine him not as a little toddler. I remember feeling that way when he was a baby though and now I barely remember his baby days. I do think I’ll always see him as my smiley blond two-year-old though, no matter how old he gets.

We ended the day by going to church. Spencer made a picture in class and proudly gave it to us when we picked him up. He’s in the “blue room” now with the bigger 2 and 3 year olds and he’s extremely excited about it.