Destructo's Favorite Toys at Two

My son is spoiled.  As of right now, he is the only grandchild on either side of the family.  Which also means he is the only nephew on either side of the family to a total of seven aunts and uncles right now.  Which means sometimes it feels like not a day goes by that he doesn't get a toy or book or article of clothing.  I like clothes and books.  I am cool with this.  He likes toys.  He is cool with that.  Either way, our toy inventory needs to go down considerably.  I want to divide some of the toys and rotate them out every few months, but need attic space to do so and I currently have nine full crates of 18 months and smaller clothes up there.  I think I might actually stash some toys in the shed.  Then he will always have "new" toys.

But anyways what are his favorite toys as a big two year old you might ask?  Well here is his ten favorites right now.

1)  Kidcraft Fire station.  Kai is obsessed with fire trucks and fire men and fire stations and everything "fie wah."  It has truly surpassed his train obsession.  He even wants a fire truck big boy bedroom.  My mom and sister got him this for his birthday (used off Craigslist for only fifty bucks no less) and he plays with it every single day.  It is basically a doll house for boys and I even like playing with it with him.

2)  Fisher price zoo talkers zoo.  He didn't like this much at first, but the more animals he got for it, the more he started playing with it.  This is another toy that was as much for me as it was for him.  I mean I love the zoo and what is better than a zoo that makes animal sounds?



 3)  Not quite a toy, but close is Destructo's "motorpsychee."  He wanted a "lellow" bike so for his birthday we got him a Strider balance bike.  He is slowly figuring out how to ride it even though he prefers keeping it inside so he can ride it whenever he wants (and naked a lot of the time eye roll.)



 4)  Melissa and Doug farm blocks are a favorite in this house.  Kai is slightly obsessed with making hay and for good reason.  Apparently he has a horse, cow, giraffe, and elephant in our back yard that he has to have enough hay to feed.  I hope he likes scooping poop.



 5) Matchbox cars.  All of them.  All of them all over the place.  All the time.  I swear these suckers breed at night.  And Mr. Destructo is enabling Kai on this one.  He is starting him a collection for when he is older.  Because anything Captain Destructo has now will survive until he is older  Yeah right.

6)  Fire truck.  It lights up and makes sounds and is so very annoying.  But he loves it.  It isn't the one in the picture, but is very close to it.  It came from Dollar General one day.  The batteries will never ever ever die.



7)  Melissa and Doug horse trailer.  This makes my horse loving soul happy.  Especially when he drives his horses to the race track.  Living my dreams son, living my dreams.



8)  Melissa and Doug car carrier


9)  Garbage truck.  Kai picked this out himself with his birthday gift card.  It also makes noise and has lights and the batteries also never die.


10) Thomas track master set.  He is still on the young side for this, but we decided to start this set for him.  He loves to play with it, but isn't quite old enough yet to set it up for himself.  I do have to say the trains are really well made because he hasn't destroyed them yet even with much trying.

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Tuesday Baby Link Up: Week 44

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Hey guys!  Welcome back to another week's link up.  I have been super busy canning, picking, and otherwise tending to my garden.  I love gardening, but it sure is a labor of love.

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Canning, canning, canning

If you have noticed the distinct lack of talking coming from this blog, well let me tell you it is my garden's fault.  Summer is always such a busy time with my garden and pool.  This week even my pool has taken a back seat.  I had my entire kitchen table covered in tomatoes.  This isn't an exaggeration either.  My kitchen table isn't that small either.  I mean it is a normal four person round table.

I hated to waste them, but didn't really know how to can tomatoes either.  Well Mr. Destructo stepped in an taught himself (and me) to can.  It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be.  I mean it is tedious and time consuming, but not horrible by any means.  I think we processed at least 100 tomatoes.  I don't think the six pints of tomato sauce and six pints of diced tomatoes will be the best tasting ever since the majority of my tomatoes are slicing tomatoes and not cooking tomatoes, but it makes me even more excited for my garden next year since I have this knowledge now and can do less slicing tomatoes and more canning tomatoes like Romas.

I planted six slicing type tomato plants this year and two that were supposed to be Romas.  They weren't.  I got a grape tomato plant and a cherry tomato plant neither of which are that useful to me.  My boss is happy though haha.  The tomatoes have done amazing even though the garden got away from me a bit when we went on vacation and I never managed to stake the tomatoes back up.  I have been giving away tomatoes by the shopping bag full and just having to get rid of them as they got too ripe.  Well no more since I can can now.  I feel all domestic and stuff.  I was canning tomatoes, freezing squash, and line drying my cloth diapers.  Win!

In other garden news, the cucumbers made an amazing come back even after they were decimated early on by slugs.  I need to learn to pickle those since I am having to give away bags of them each week.  The squash did awesome and I have frozen probably 7 or 8 quart Ziplocks and we are eating squash at least twice a week.  Yum.  Zucchinis were disappointing.  After losing three of five plants and then one of the two replacements to squash borers, it has been slow.  Plus I missed a day or two of picking and had a number get too big to eat so I gave them away for zucchini bread making.

And the thing that made my gardening year the best was picking my very first bell pepper.  I have picked some before, but they were only an inch or two tall and stunted.  I never have luck with these.  This year I got the most gorgeous pepper ever.

Finally, in cantaloupe and watermelon news I have two large watermelons.  I just can't figure out when to pick them haha.  I have about 15ish cantaloupes on the vines right now that again I am trying to determine the best time to pick.  I am going to have cantaloupe out my ears soon.  I wonder if it can be easily frozen?  Destructo loves cantaloupe year round.  Oh and I have bird house gourds and decorative gourds/ mini pumpkins going crazy along the fence.  I am curious to see what all I get.  They also spread all through the cantaloupes and watermelons so it is a big (yay for an amazing gardening year) mess!

Does anyone have any good jam recipes?  My raspberry bush is thriving and I picked an entire small container yesterday and have quite a few more that will be ready this weekend.  I was thinking about making jam from some of them if it is easy, not too time consuming, and you can make small amounts of it since I don't have that much fruit to spare since Destructo loves "rasbabies."