Day 126: Christmas In June

When the kids were very small, they had an abundant collection of Imaginext toys. Castles with knights and space shuttles and pirates, especially. Over the years they had stopped playing with them, but I boxed up the pirate ship and accessories, thinking that they were so timeless we could store them for whenever little cousins come to visit, or even grandkids 100 years from now. 

We happened to go to Toys R Us today to fit Cam for a new bike that we plan on getting before school starts (darn growth spurts). The boys were drooling over a new line of Imaginext pirate toys, which made me think of this abandoned cardboard box up high in our garage. So I pulled it down today to see what the kids would do with it. 

You'd think it was Christmas morning. 

The kids spent the next two hours playing pirates. Calen went back and forth between it and his beloved Legos, but Cam was hooked. He snatched two pirate "guys" and they had an entire afternoon of dialogue, adventures and peril. 

I should do this with all their toys. Reduce, reuse, recycle. 

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