Truck Overload
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:13 PM
How Do You Tuck In a Superhero? is a perfect name, but it’s already taken.
So if I ever write a memoir about raising boys, it’ll be called Where Did All These Trucks Come From?
We had toy trucks when Camilla was little. One of my favorite childhood playthings had been a small tractor, and I didn’t want to deprive her of the chance to fall in love with something similar. She’d occasionally take time to put one of the trucks to bed with her dolls, but mostly they stayed in the toy box.
Enter Blaise. Enter toddler Blaise, whose interest in vehicles showed itself as soon as he had the motor skills to push one and the ability to make the “vroom” sound with his mouth.
I think he came out of the womb knowing how to go “vroom.”
Now that Blaise is two and can poke around in corners and bins, I’ve discovered that we own, conservatively, two dozen toy trucks and cars of various sizes. I’ve counted, because at least once a day they’re all in the same place.
(At many other times of the day they’re - of course - scattered all over the house. I’m sure Blaise does this as an act of love. He wants his mama to grow in virtue, so he gives me many chances to practice self-control when I step on the blasted things. Ouch!)
“Look, Mama! Frucks!”* He gathers them in the toy shopping cart, or loads the smaller ones in the backs of the larger dump trucks. He lines them up by size or by color. He builds garages out of blocks to house every four-wheeled toy he can find.
I know the origins of many of them. We bought them in moments of weakness, or received them as gifts. But some of them are mysterious. Is it possible for a little boy to conjure a toy out of thin air, just by wanting it enough? Because if ever a boy loved his vehicles, Blaise is that boy.
Seriously. Where did all these trucks come from?
*Blaise can’t quite say the “tr” sound yet so he replaces it with “fr.” With this particular word, as you might imagine, the substitution is not ideal.
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