This weekend we dumped out all 4 ice cream buckets of Noah's childhood keychain collection. It was kind of fun to look at them all. I remembered giving him some of them when we were younger, and of course there were fun surprises like knives jumping out when you would hit certain buttons...Noah is saving some, but we did eliminate a bunch of them. Oh, and then there are the ones that Deacon has latched on to and carries around in his backpack. Next up the other 15 boxes of his childhood toys...
In other news, we decided that finishing the deck wasn't enough of a project so I dug up a bunch of sod, Noah built a retaining wall, and now we are going to start paving it with cute little pavers. It is going to be the base of the deck stairs, but eventually the plan is to break up the patio and make it one big pavered patio.Noah almost took a sledgehammer to the patio so we can do it all right now, but then reason spoke up and we decided to refrain. As my sister pointed out, if we ran into any problems we would be stuck with a mud pit outside our sliding glass door for the whole winter.
And, in case you didn't know, that wouldn't be good.
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I always wanted to play with certain key chains in Noah's collection. I particularly remember one that had several buttons and each button made a different noise (one was a bomb dropping). Noah wouldn't let me use it, because I might "make it wear out". But then he would go around having fun with it in front of me.
Another one was a cicada bug that made the noise of a cicada. And then there was a little wooden box that had a secret panel that would open somehow and you could put something very small inside it. (I always liked anything that seemed mysterious.)
Anyway, since Noah got so many cool key chains, I wanted to start my own collection, but mom told me only one of us could collect them and Noah had already started, so I had to pick something else.
Any of them you want now? I still have the cicada. And the ones that make noise. But their batteries are dead.
Thanks, but no. We have enough of my childhood debris around here without adding to it. It is nice of you to offer now that all of the batteries are dead anyhow :-P
Holy cow! My kids would go crazy with glee if they saw that pile of keychains! That's like kid heaven! A big pile of colorful little...stuff.
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