Shelved

We unbelievably got another project started and finished today. We took the unused side of David's closet and put up three shelves along the back and side. This allows him to empty out his toy box and put the stuff up where he can FIND it. I found about six pieces of his Buzz Light-year play sets which he was sure he'd lost, and four more Star Wars items. (For those keeping count, he's got the Galactic Heroes series of SW stuff. There seem to be dozens of ''flavors.'') We also pulled out a few of his cars he hadn't seen in awhile...so all in all, he's really liking this so far. The next step is to get containers with lids for all this stuff so that he need only grab a container off the shelf in order to dump, play, and return.

In the Great Container Search I ran across a cache of the Star Wars characters David aches for. They're at Wal-Mart, and the big question will be which one(s) grandma gets him and which ones we can pick up. And grandma was talking about getting Lauren a vanity...I saw a kick-butt kids vanity at Target. Sigh. I am always so incredibly behind at Christmas, it's unreal.

And speaking of unreal, David's quarter collection has now gotten to the point where he's only missing South Dakota. The rest won't be minted until 2007 and 2008, so he'll just have to wait it out. (Much to his dismay.).