This hour 2 years ago Nem-nem came into the world. I’m up early to catch up with some schoolwork (erm, and write a blog entry?) and won’t be home today while she’s awake, so we celebrated yesterday.
Mago discovered these great toys, BAKUGAN, by following some older kids around who were playing with some in a thrift store. (And in turn he discovers these toys to me. These things are so cool. Yu-Gi-Yo meets Transformers meets Pokémon.) He bought his own 3-pack with his own cash saved from extra work, and he and Nem-nem have been fighting over them. She either innately loves them, or she wants to be a part of his world, or both (I think both). He’s reluctantly let her play with them, as when she does (and even when she doesn’t), she says “mine”, which upsets Mago as of course he can’t persuade his 2-year-old sister otherwise, and it’s simply factually untrue. (I think he’s learning to let that go). She’s particularly fond of a cyan one which has now been lost in the deep tangles of backyard bushes after Mago threw it off the trampoline (hopes of finding it are slim).
Anyway, since she loves these toys and I won’t be at home today while she’s awake, yesterday evening I bought her two starter-packs of three (you’s abouts Provo – these are on sale near 2-for-1 at Shopko!) and we wrapped them, sang happy birthday to her, and let her open the packages. Her first words were those she often says before stealthily grabbing the cyan toy away from Mago:
Ball! .. Blue! Ball!
(Until now – since she has her own BAKUGAN – after you’d hear Nem-nem say this, you’d hear an unhappy yell from Mago, whose toy has been taken.)
To try to get a BAKUGAN to open (although you only have to roll one onto a metal card, and the magnetically-activated mechanism opens the Bakugan ball – or as Mago says, the ball “magnetics” open), Nem-nem whacks the ball against the table like a hard-boiled egg, then places it on the metal card and sees if it will open – until she happens to place it on the side that opens it.
She’s happy to have her own. And I’m happy to have a growing collection by reference 🙂
I’m sooo glad to hear this story. I think it is a great way to solve the fighting problem, even better than taking all the Bakugans away. Happy Birthday to beautiful, smart, precious Nem-nem! By the way, I love the color and design of your daffodil background.
thx abt. the design – I forget where I nabbed it from 🙂 it’s one of several selectable with yon “theme selector” widget, which, I guess ironically, I just came here to change to another default :p
Also, I see as I post this that a certain spam-blocker plugin is OUT OF CONTROL. “Cheating huh” it says to *me* as I try to post. As if! DISABLED!