Procrastinating on writing my blog post by adding to Amazon-dot-com wish list for Jonah’s upcoming birthday and the holidays instead. There’s a wish list for me also. With a very expensive camera lens on it. (Sigh.)
I was doing well with Jonah’s list to start. Found a BUNCH of illustrated storybooks I’d like for someone, or us, to get him. We are up to our ears in encyclopedia-esque books on all of his current favorite subjects: space, dinosaurs, sharks and other fish and sea mammals, etc. But new stories to get lost in and read over and over? Not so much.
Then I started spiraling down into the search for the perfect space-themed pajamas, and the perfect slippers from any one of his preferred theme categories. Or rainboots.
The slippers are a dire need. Okay, not dire. But.
The kid has been wearing the same pair of train slippers from The Gap for the last two years. When we bought them, in size 6/7, his feet were probably a 5-1/2. Now they’re 9-1/2. Not to mention how the fabric is wearing down and the polyester batting is showing in more than a few places. But they seem to just flatten and stretch as he grows and he’s completely content with them.
I’d like to see us effect an upgrade. Somehow. But I have standards. Not just any crazy character or otherwise shaped slipper. It has to be aesthetically pleasing.
Yeah, wish me luck with that one.
My last attempt to woo him away from the train slippers was a pair of Monkey/Bear feet (unclear which) slippers, all furry and soft. Also from The Gap. He refuses to wear them, except for once when he was with his friend Flann who also has a pair and they were twins.
Oh, and nothing with flame retardants impregnated in the fabric. So that makes it easy too. (Not.)
When was the last time you heard someone end a thought with (Not.)?
(Insert later-decade smiley here.)
Hey — want to see what we’re craving? Click this link to view Jonah’s wish list, created by me. Check back frequently as the list may evolve, especially when I remember another thing he told me he wanted.
If you have any suggestions for cool books and toys for a soon-to-be 4-year-old—or anything on this list you know we should avoid—please let me know!
Maybe that’s where I should start looking for ideas for Zack. Amazon.com. We have NO idea what to get him this year as he really only plays with action figures and cars and he has PLENTY of those. Last year he got a TON of expensive “must have” toys and within six months they were in the attic because he never played with them.