My little lad is a big (no not right, bloomin huge, enormous) fan of Pixar's Cars movie. And he's slowly collected most of the die-cast cars from said film. Now months ago he lost "Boost" (one of the bad-gang cars) and we looked everywhere: here, Granny's, Grandma's, Child Minder's, Play School... everywhere. Eventually deciding that it's lost, or left at play school and taken home by another child.
So as his birthday's the next on the list, I've started buying him his presents. And this morning Amazon delivered a two car set of "Boost" and "Snotrod", this was cheaper than buying them individually. So I've hidden them in the "usual" place, quite happy with my lot.
So then we go to my folks for lunch (and me to leave the kids before football). My sister and family are there this weekend, and in their making of the sofa-bed, what did they find? Go on, have a wild guess...?
So now (he doesn't know it yet) we've got two Boost cars!!!! Still he's very happy to have it back.
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He has pretty much played with Boost since his return - it's gone to the swimming pool with us, Morrisons, Waitrose and Focus, and when I took the kids scootering after tea it went to the park with us as well. And now it's safely beside his bed with the rest of his Car's collection (except for green "Ramone" who seems to have just gone AWOL!!)
In many ways that is exceedingly good in the fact it'll teach him a valid lesson on life. You may think how on earth can a toy teach a young child the value of life well it can, if he loses a toy he's well aware that if he has any other toys and he's not careful with them he'll lose them too, so now subconsiously he'll be very careful with the way he looks after his toys. Sounds very sweet though.