As most of you can tell by the articles on this site, most of our purchases over the past few years has been baby and toddler clothes as well as the toys. Of course Karen and I have accumulated our own junk. So this past weekend we had a garage sale. That garage sale has given us a lot more room in the house and we hope to preserve the extra space for some time.
We have keept the toys and clothes that have “memories” attached to them, but most items either were sold this weekend or have gone to charity. Not to fret, our son’s third birthday is coming very soon so he’s happy we made the room for him. He has matured these past three years. No longer does he prefer trains…but planes and automobiles.

I was in Toys-R-Us the other day and saw a woman with about a 5 month old looking at this drum.? I had forgotten what a long-lived toy this is!? I was given one as a gift when my son was quite young.? We began playing with it before he was 6 months old.? Besides having?fun, it starts teaching?as infant?the principle of cause and effect.? As he got older, it has become more and more of a learning tool while he is having a blast with his choice of playing music, imitating the drum beats that they play, numbers?or letters (there are four different settings the child can set it on).? He is now just over 2 ? and still plays with it quite frequently, sometimes singing along as well!? This toy is a definite for any mom!

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As I mentioned a couple days ago, my two-and-a-half year old son and I are bachelors until my wife returns from two weeks of traveling for work. Well, I decided to start my son right in teaching him how to be a real man. We went to Sears and bought ourselves one of their top 6.5 Horsepower self-propelled lawn mowers. This lawn mower can mulch, rear-bag, or thow from the side discharge the grass 20 feet into the neighbors yard!

Karen has actually been on my case to get a new lawn mower so she’ll be happy we made the purchase due to the fact it is self-propelled. My previous 10-year old push lawn mower was the cheapest lawn mower I could buy at Target. Ironically, that first lawn mower was also the most expensive lawn more I could afford at the time!

To make a long story short, the lawn mower ran like a charm. The mower was so easy to push that even my two-and-half year old son was able to join in on the fun. There was about a 20 foot swath of lawn that he pretty much cut with little assistance by me. I of course was right there next to him making sure he didn’t stray the mower (or himself) in any wrong direction. With safety fully on my mind, eventually we moved him to a lawn mower his own size.

His little bubble mower may not cut the grass so well, but it sure can cut a mean down anything that stands in it’s way on the sidewalk. When the grass was done, we both headed down the side walk with his mower to showoff what a father-son team can accomplish. I only hope the bubbles coming from his bubble mower meets California laws on clean-air emmisions! I have a hard time believing the both of us would have been happy if we bought one of those electric lawn mowers we’ve seen at Amazon. I think my son’s bubble mower has more horse power!