I had the won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to have the grand­son for a week­end here lately. It was the best of times.

Today I finally got around to pack­ing away all the toys I had drug out to play with him that were still lurk­ing in boxes in the base­ment. Try­ing to be a good and respon­si­ble per­son, for the first time in my life I remem­bered to remove all the bat­ter­ies, from all the toys, so they would not corrode.

Sim­ple you say? No. The kid is a techno geek in the mak­ing, at 18 months,  and anything…and I do mean ANYTHING that clicks, clangs, buzzes, rings, tweets, zaps, hums, talks, and oth­er­wise makes a noise sim­i­lar to his par­ents “toys” makes him a happy camper for hours on end. True you have to alter­nate fre­quently to avoid bore­dom, and he will let you know by dropping/throwing said toy down and mov­ing on, but he is yet at that age where an hour later it is again exciting.

That being said…48 bat­ter­ies later.….did I say FORTY-EIGHT?? I am think­ing my next stock option will be in recharge­able bat­ter­ies. Or I could stop buy­ing him toys that click, clang, buzz, ring, tweet, zap, hum, talk.….….

Nah.…it’s way too fun watch­ing him push every sin­gle but­ton on every toy to see what it will do! So I sug­gest you too get your stock option now…this kid is going places!!!