Pet Shop Boy…And Girls
There are certain ideas and things you pull out as a mother to keep your kids occupied.
This is one I hadn’t thought of. You take the Sunday paper ads and spend hours cutting out itty-bitty items for your pretend pet shop. You score big when there’s a PetSmart ad with lots of pictures of adorable animals. Then you can expand and make a Target. With shampoo and clothes and games and radios and everything anyone could ever want to shop for. The three kids spend tons of time doing this every week and our floor ends up horribly messy:
I make them keep their little treasures in a specific basket and they’re allowed to keep them as long as they don’t end up all over my house. But, really, I had never thought of that as something to keep them occupied. I have to take a deep breath and try not to mind the mess…we do clean it up when they’re done!
On the other hand, a dream and an idea I always had in mind for my kids is that they would do Legos! And, fortunately, Legos are right up 9 yo’s alley. The problem is there are not a lot of Legos for a girl – I mean, she’s not really into alien spaceship/shoot-em-up kinda things. But there is a series of Lego sets that people have designed online and Lego has produced them as sets (link to another option they have). They are very cool… very expensive, but worth it. She got this set for Christmas from her grandma and has spent HOURS up in her room getting it just right. She finally finished yesterday and I was so proud! (And look how cool the townhouse is! You can lift the different floors off and see inside the house to see the stairway. On the bottom floor is a little veggie grocery store. Very cool. Make more of these, Lego!!!)
Look at this cool Lego Chess Set!
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January 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Excellent job Chloe!! Lego discrimination – who knew??
January 13th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I used to lovelovelove Legos. I don’t remember having any actual “sets”. I mostly just had lots of assorted pieces. Shoeboxes full of pieces that I inherited from cousins who went through their “Lego phase” and became disinterested. I would sit in my room for hours upon hours, building different structures so I could demolish them with my GI Joe tanks.
Ah, those were the days. I can still vividly recall my mom screaming in agony as she walked around the house barefoot, stepping on those rigid little plastic bricks that would inevitably get buried in the shag carpet. “Oh, thanks mom, I was looking for that piece.”
January 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
AWESOME!
January 13th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
That is really cool, Chloe. Good job!
January 13th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
That is so neat! I’m thinking that if I were nine years old, I might need to have that set too.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Nice job Chloe. That looks like a lot of fun.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Very cool!! Yes, my boys are into the Star Wars lego sets right now.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
thanks for the encouragement, everyone! she had fun and wants you to know she’s raising money for her new life mission: Legos!!!
Is it too terribly awful that I just HAD to play a Pet Shop Boys song on this post? Did anyone get that? No? Just me?
January 14th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I realized when I scrolled down to see what the name of the song was – I kept singing “give thanks with a grateful heart”!!
Never heard of the Pet Shop Boys?!
January 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
that’s hilarious, kris!! it’s give thanks!
(pet shop boys were back in the 80′s.)