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Thursday, October 21, 2010

172–Old Toys

As the boys got older, I sorted through their toys and kept a stash of some of their favorites or ones who had sentimental value to me.  I hadn’t got them out or thought of them much in a LONG time, but since Maddie’s been around we’ve gotten a few of them out.

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These blocks were the kids when they were toddlers.  Mixed in with them are some of their old Hot Wheels and farm vehicles and some Jenga blocks. And if you look closely, you can see that Maddie added a “Strawberry Shortcake” Happy Meal toy.  Ha!  The Jenga blocks very seldom were used as they were intended… mostly they were the edges to imaginary roads or hay bales or something.  Nearly every vehicle in there has been painted with flames or some design by Tyler.  (He painted everything he could get his hands on… including bowling pins, baseball helmets, computer mice, you name it.)

It’s fun to see them come out again.  Have you saved any of your children’s toys? Or do you plan to keep any that have special meaning to you?

6 comments:

His Doorkeeper said...

I have boxes of Star War toys (the originals), G.I.Joes, Transformers, Legos, Strawberry Shortcake, Barbies, and Cabbage Patch dolls...just to name a few!!

Daisy said...

I love when tyler and maddie both play with them. he builds and she destroys lol.. with sass i don't really save toys... i save outfits.. i still have all of her christams dresses. the first outfit she wore home. and all kinds of other things. i even have her first pageant dress =)....

its hard to let go

StitchinByTheLake said...

Because of our moves I only got to keep a few but I still have some of my son's Hot Wheels. His son plays with them now. :) blessings, marlene

The Garners said...

I have all my old Barbies and Strawberry Shortcake & Cabbage Patch dolls. The kids play with my old kitchen set stuff. Just this morning as I was riding the exercise bike (which is in our playroom) I was mentally organizing the toys around me into "keep forever" and "give away" categories. :) I think it's neat to see the kids play with our old toys, so I definitely want to save a lot of theirs for the future. Every time I hear the huge tub of Legos dumped out on the floor I have a flashback of playing with Grandmother Wood's (Beulah) Lego set that she saved (I think they were Shelly & Brandon's?). She always dumped them on a white sheet for us to play with which made clean up a lot easier!

Kelley said...

I love this! The strawberry shortcake adds the perfect touch! I play on keeping the toys my girls love the most. My mom kept my stuff to share with them. I think it is special.

Jenn said...

The girls and I have been cleaning and purging toys all week and it has been very hard getting rid of hardly any of them. So I just put them in a different tote and stick 'em back in the attic! :D Maybe by the time they leave (never hopefully) I'll have it narrowed down!