"Dad, look! ToysRUs is back again. And this time, they have BabiesRUs too", said my son. Not long ago, he had also been the first to notice that our friendly neigbourhood ToysRUs had been taken down. It had been, not a mere store, but a landmark, ever since we moved to the US when he was 5 years old...
Ever since he started with the choir last year, we have passed the store at least 4 times a week on the way from home to choir practice and back. So it would have been tough not to notice that the store was gone and was now back. Clearly, ToysRUs had grown, which is why they now had 2 signs in the place of one...
But my son has grown too! Which is why, even though he was the first to notice these events, I can't remember the last time we were in that store. It may have been for his 10th birthday, but I'm not sure. So, when he told me that the store was back, he was just saying it in passing...
There comes a time in every child's life when they outgrow generic toys and move up to specific interests. They start looking for specific stuff that is available only in specific stores which are in specific locations...
Our quest today was for the Green Ninja from LEGO's NinjaGo collection which was available at the LEGO store, located 45 minutes of us, in the King of Prussia Mall, in the adjacent state of Pennsylvania. The real beauty of this lies in the fact that this specific Green Ninja was not available in the LEGO store at the Crabtree Valley Mall, in Raleigh, North Carolina which we visited during the long Labor Day Weekend, where he bought the Ultra Sonic Rider from LEGO's NinjaGo collection, which he had researched on the internet over the last several weeks that we had known that we would be visiting cousins for the holidays...
Come to think of it, he has also been very specific when it comes to his personal needs. His customized sneakers are Reebok's Zigtech, his running shoes are Nike + and when it came time to wear canvas shoes for his tour with the choir, they had to be Adidas. Ditto on the body wash and hair gel brands he uses but if I go as far as mentioning those, he will probably give me his trademark stare and say, "Seriously Dad?"...
School starts tomorrow after the summer break and he starts 5th grade! Before going to bed, he has already laid out the specific t-shirt, shorts and shoes that he will wear for the first day of school. Soon, it will be time to decorate his locker and I am sure he will be very specific about the kinds of things he wants to do that...
And soon after, before we know it, he will turn 11! He has already told me what he wants for his Birthday. An X-Box 360 Console with 250 GB memory, Kinect Compatibility and the Halo Reach game to boot! And a Tron Action Figure if I can throw that in too...
Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents, Friends. Any takers? Just kidding...
Ever since he started with the choir last year, we have passed the store at least 4 times a week on the way from home to choir practice and back. So it would have been tough not to notice that the store was gone and was now back. Clearly, ToysRUs had grown, which is why they now had 2 signs in the place of one...
But my son has grown too! Which is why, even though he was the first to notice these events, I can't remember the last time we were in that store. It may have been for his 10th birthday, but I'm not sure. So, when he told me that the store was back, he was just saying it in passing...
There comes a time in every child's life when they outgrow generic toys and move up to specific interests. They start looking for specific stuff that is available only in specific stores which are in specific locations...
Our quest today was for the Green Ninja from LEGO's NinjaGo collection which was available at the LEGO store, located 45 minutes of us, in the King of Prussia Mall, in the adjacent state of Pennsylvania. The real beauty of this lies in the fact that this specific Green Ninja was not available in the LEGO store at the Crabtree Valley Mall, in Raleigh, North Carolina which we visited during the long Labor Day Weekend, where he bought the Ultra Sonic Rider from LEGO's NinjaGo collection, which he had researched on the internet over the last several weeks that we had known that we would be visiting cousins for the holidays...
Come to think of it, he has also been very specific when it comes to his personal needs. His customized sneakers are Reebok's Zigtech, his running shoes are Nike + and when it came time to wear canvas shoes for his tour with the choir, they had to be Adidas. Ditto on the body wash and hair gel brands he uses but if I go as far as mentioning those, he will probably give me his trademark stare and say, "Seriously Dad?"...
School starts tomorrow after the summer break and he starts 5th grade! Before going to bed, he has already laid out the specific t-shirt, shorts and shoes that he will wear for the first day of school. Soon, it will be time to decorate his locker and I am sure he will be very specific about the kinds of things he wants to do that...
And soon after, before we know it, he will turn 11! He has already told me what he wants for his Birthday. An X-Box 360 Console with 250 GB memory, Kinect Compatibility and the Halo Reach game to boot! And a Tron Action Figure if I can throw that in too...
Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents, Friends. Any takers? Just kidding...
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