Christmas in July

Henry has acquired quite a few toys in the last two days. After play group yesterday I went to a thrift store that one of the playgroup moms told me about. She gets most of her son's toys at this place and the toys and prices are great. After seeing her latest finds I headed straight to the store and scored. I walked away with a big bag of toys and a couple books ---all for $13. All the things I bought were toys I had seen at playgroup and knew Henry would enjoy. Although I did not find a toy vacuum which he really goes crazy over. 2 of the 3 playgroup houses have the toy vacuum and Henry makes a b-line for the vacuum every time we go and doesn't let go for at least 30 minutes. It has been a joke at playgroup. Today I put Henry in his stroller and did my vacuuming with the real vacuum. Henry goes nuts over it every time he sees it so I decided when I finished vacuuming I would let him look and touch the vacuum. I let him look at it for about 5 minutes and then started to take it back to the utility room. I immediately knew we were in for an ugly scene. As soon as I started to push the vacuum Henry was pushing it with me and trying to remove my hands so he could have it to himself. Then, he started to yell when I was moving the vacuum into the utility room. I had to peel his hands off the vacuum and he then preceded to cry for 30 minutes. When David called later in the afternoon Henry started crying again when he heard me say vacuum. I then decided it was time to get this boy a vacuum so we went up to Target and got him a vacuum of his own. As you can see from the picture, he loves it!