If you don't have a 5 year old and a 2 year old in your house, you might not realize the significance of that date. However, in my house, my two children's ages coupled with the simple fact that I am totally Disney's bitch...has us on a living count down until Cars 2 comes out. The Boy is a HUGE fan of the first one (and I have to say I am too) and just recently The Girl has started watching it. She is now a huge fan as well. Here she is taking it all in...
Some people would say that my children are spoiled. And really, I would love to put up a good fight on that and say that they aren't...they really are. I will take the blame for some of it...but honestly the majority of it can be credited to Gigi. When my son gets obsessed with something (like the movie Cars for example), he needs to have ALL the little toys so that he can recreate the entire thing in his head. And for that to happen he has to have possession of ALL the cars in the movie. And while this starts out as just wanting to have a simple Lightening McQueen to take home and play with, soon we are buying MAC the truck and the little dude who does the tires... and before you know it we have the entire collection. This happened over 2 years ago for The Boy and when he moved onto his next obsession, I packed it up and put it in the garage. So you can imagine their excitement when last week, we pulled out the DVD and started watching it again, and I went into the garage and returned with a complete set of ALL the cars for them to play with. The Boy said, "It's like Christmas!" And The Girl watched her brother take them all and line them up on the carpet in his room and proceed to create races.
She waited patiently for her turn. And this time, during this viewing...it was finally her turn...
She didn't do races like her brother. She had an entirely other thought process going on. For some reason she was stacking them onto top of one of her other toy boxes and trying to line them all up. I asked her what they were doing and she told me "parking." Huh. So he recreates the race...and she parks them. They march to their own drummers, those two...
She didn't do races like her brother. She had an entirely other thought process going on. For some reason she was stacking them onto top of one of her other toy boxes and trying to line them all up. I asked her what they were doing and she told me "parking." Huh. So he recreates the race...and she parks them. They march to their own drummers, those two...
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I am excited about the 24th as well. I'm also a little worried that I (we) won't like #2 as much as the first. I will probably wait a few days and see what everyone else is saying. I definitely have two die-hard McQueen/Mac/Mater fans here. They can't get enough of the merchandise. And even when I'm in the store alone it's hard to resist the temptation to pick up another toy they will love. I succeed about 50% of the time.
What will we do with all this stuff five years from now?!!!
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