When Jackson gets an idea in his head about something, many times it's almost impossible to dissuade him. He's literally like a broken record (or a skipping CD in todays lingo).
Today, it's that he wants to go to the bookstore...Barnes and Noble actually. He wants to go and buy another Arthur and DW doll. Never mind the fact that he already has four of each. I think he's decided it's his life mission to hoard all the Arthur dolls in NE Indiana!
This, of course, as always comes back to something I did that backfired on me. When he started 4th grade we decided to discourage taking 'toys' to school. For Jackson, toys are a multitude of Sesame Street characters, Teletubbies, or Muppets Characters. Previously he took up to half a dozen such toys to school everyday in a cinch sack. We decided maybe 4th grade was the time to limit such a habit and replace it with a more age appropriate practice. This was the advent of Arthur. In all my infinite wisdom I decided Arthur was an age appropriate character he liked. So, I bought him an Arthur with a backpack at B & N and told him, that Arthur was going to 4th grade with him. We even took pictures of Arthur with him at school as he visited his classroom before school started.
So, we've graduated to taking 8 characters to school each day in the cinch sack (again) 4 Arthurs and 4 DW's . Each, of course, is carrying a backpack, ready for school.
Sometimes, I'd just love to get inside his head.....
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