"Anything with wheels"...

Elijah Brooks all of a sudden, like any boy I suppose, loves trucks.  He has always loved wheels and has been spinning wheels since he was 3 months old.  His favorite toy as an infant was a little spinning palm tree.  He would hold that tree and spin it all day long - it was a diaper bag staple! That tree went everywhere with us.  So spinning things is not really a new thing to him. He was the child in Kindermusik class at 7 months old not sitting in the circle with me and the other children.  Where was Elijah Brooks you ask?  Spinning the wheels on the strollers parked in the corner of the room of course.  He investigates every single object to see if it has a wheel that he can spin.  It's almost abit of an obsession possibly - and it really makes me wonder what he is going to do when he grows up.  He turns over EVERY single toy to see if it has something he can spin. Everyone who knows him just knows that's "his thing" - spinning wheels. 

Where was I going with this post??  I think I started out talking about trucks - then somehow digressed to spinning wheels. 

Ah yes, trucks.  So today we went over to a new friend's house to play and Elijah Brooks fell in love with this little Tonka firetruck and police car that his new friend owned. It has cool flashing lights and 3 different (annoying) sounds - I mean who wouldn't love these?  Well, I had to practically rip it out of his hands when it was time to leave.  He didn't cry about leaving his new favorite toy, but on the way home he kept making siren sounds that sounded just like the trucks. I mean he had the same vocal inflection and everything.  Kind of scary actually. While we were at Wal-mart this afternoon..., NOT looking for trucks might I add...., I just so "happened" to find myself on the toy aisle and what did my eyes behold but the beloved Tonka firetruck and police car!  Me being the sucker that I am, grabbed both of the toys off of the rack and put them in my buggy.  Now realize we are on a strict budget and 2 Tonka trucks were NOT in my grocery budget today...., not even 1 Tonka truck was in my budget.  To buy my son these beloved toys would mean that I would have to make some pretty big sacrifices.  I would have to put back my bag of yummy yogurt covered raisins (my guilty pleasure - pretty pathetic I know), I couldn't get the pound of delicious deli sliced sandwich meat and would have to settle for the pre-packaged kind instead, and I would have to pass on the red, plump, juicy grapes that were calling my name on this grocery trip.  What a dilemma I was in!  

Were the sacrifices I made worth it in the end?  Absolutely YES. To see the look on my son's face when I "presented" him with his new trucks after his nap was priceless. I have never seen him more proud of something in his short little life. 

Silly? Maybe.  

Ridiculous? Maybe.  

Unwise? Maybe.  

Memory making?  Absolutely.  

Any regrets? Zero.