Crushed
After yesterday’s disappointment (and I can explain that later), I was really looking forward to tomorrow. Oscar turns two and we have a day of fun planned, including giving him his big present. The train. My plan was to stay up as late tonight as I needed to finish assembling it and then get up early to unveil it. He loves trains. He’s obsessed with the one at the zoo, and pulling him away from the one at the children’s museum is next to impossible. So, imagine my delight this morning when I was getting ready for work and heard him scurrying down the hall to the family room, with Nanny Norma behind him saying “Oscar train! Choo choo!” Huh? I walk out to see him headed into the family room, where the train is fully assembled. He walks in, all nonchalant, like no big deal, I played with this all day yesterday. It’s just my train. Norma tells me that since I’ve been so busy at work she went ahead and put it together. So sweet of her – truly. But I was absolutely devastated. I really wanted to see his face when he saw the train. Apparently he loved it; he spent hours with it yesterday, which somehow made me feel worse. I know she thought that it wasn’t a surprise since I had opened the box to assemble the table part of the gift; she didn’t know that Oscar had not seen the box or the contents. Now I need to go to the toy store to buy new gifts because of course she thought I was giving him a bunch of things. Of course I was giving him a bizillion dollar train set, which is now old news.
Any emergency gift ideas?
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Oh, I would have been so disappointed.
You know, he’s not going to care if he gets a present on his birthday. But I vote for a little engineer hat.
jacob has a basketball goal and he loves it! Everyday he says “shoot” “shoot” and we have to get up and shoot the ball with him. It’s one of the best toys we have. I think it goes up to 4 feet.
Sarah
Our newest 2 y/o obsession is duplo legos (the bigger legos). She builds and builds for hours. You don’t need many (believe me–they just get poured out), but they are FUN!
OMG ~ I would have been comepletely devastated!!
An experience of mine. I was pregnant with my firstborn and after being told she would be early, she was 2 days late! I started my leave a week before her due date since I thought I would be off before then. I addressed some announcement envelopes the week before while I was being “babysat” by my mother-in-law. She offered to help, with her BEAUTIFUL handwriting. I said No, I wanted to do them myself and she understood why. After my daughter was born, my Dad and stepmom came to visit. One night, since she couldn’t sleep, my stepmom took down my VERY dry Christmas tree and left everything a mess on the floor AND completed ALL of my handwritten anncoucnements in her HORRIBLE handwriting!!! I was heartbroken! Luckily, I did have printed announcements to send also, but I did have to use the ones that she wrote, as well. She was trying to be helpful, but what a disaster!! I was heartbroken! (((HUGS))