August 14, 2005
Rebuild has been queued
Today being a rainy Sunday, seemed like a good time to catch up on some much needed housework and chilling out. While I am doing laundry, Tara has taken on the monumental task of cleaning Trevor's room.
This task starts off with Tara walking past Trevor and I (playing Alien Hominid on the GC) with a large plastic garbage bag. Trevor looks at me and then asks Tara "Mom, what are you doing with that garbage bag?"
Tara replies "I am going to clean your room"
"Nooooooooooooooooo......." fades away into the distance as Trevor chases Tara down the hallway, and the Gamecube controller falls with a thud onto the carpet.
After some compromise, Trevor agrees to let Tara clean out some of the more cluttered areas, specifically his "junk boxes". These wooden crates are filled with all the things a 6 year old boy could ever want. As Tara is going through them, I came in with laundry and the two of us chuckled over the treasures we found
Along with the normal "boy things" that we found there, we also found the following
- Various whistling things such as pitch pipes, a recorder, metal and plastic coach whistles
- A Christmas Elf (the movie) chess set from Burger King with 32 grinning Will Ferrel-head pieces
- Bouncy balls of every shape and size
- A ninja star made out of popsicle sticks
- Carabeaners with and without compasses
- Compasses, with and without carabeaners
- Marbles, buttons and erasers of all sizes
- A meteor
- A sleigh bell
- Pipe cleaner octopus
- Tiny Treasure chest
- Luggage locks (he doesn't have his own luggage or travel)
- Shabbat candles
- 7 Dreidels (we are not Jewish)
Oh to be 6.
Comments
I was wondering where my meteor went...
Dave, you forgot the best part. The, "I'm going to clean your room" song that I made up as I walked by with the garbage bag. It was a highly effective mechanism for getting him to help.
Dave you crack me up.