Time to play!

The other day Carynn and Melinda came over to help Michael paint the house. It needed it and with the wedding reception here later this summer the timing is great to paint it too. I volunteered to do "Ty duty" while Carynn helped her dad and sister paint.

We had SO much fun! We went downstairs to the toy closets and Ty got out Melinda's old shopping cart complete with a now ancient Cabbage Patch doll. He began pushing it up and down the hallway. When he'd start to veer to far to the left or right he'd course correct himself. He'd occasionally get the baby out, give the baby a kiss and a love and then attempt to put it back into the seat in the shopping cart. I helped him put the legs through the holes. Then he'd repeat his circuit of walking the cart down the hall and back. He looked so cute.

Ty also discovered the Match Box car collection. He calls cars "Bye Bye" because that's what you do with them. He also goes "Beep beep" to simulate horns honking. So we had a lot of fun with the "bye bye's" going beep beep. There were some smaller trailer tractor rigs also with the cars. Unfortunately they would often come apart in play so I'd hear "uh oh" and put them back together for Ty. This happened a lot. So we had more than a few "uh ohs." There are also some minature wooden street signs that are well loved. Ty enjoyed fitting these together, taking them apart, etc. We had a few "uh ohs" there too.

After naptime I started to take Ty back upstairs and he didn't want to go upstairs. He said, "Play" so that's what we did. Oh, I forgot we used the old keyboard for background music. The pre-programmed songs and rhythms are great for that.

I love to play with Ty.

NS