Toy Story

So Toy Story has become the focus of playtime lately, replacing, yes, even Star Wars. Henry seems to go all out on one subject at a time...it started with the Wiggles, then Cars, then Thomas the Train, then Veggie Tales/Larry Boy, and then Star Wars. But we now have Toy Story on the brain--and we're all better because of it! :) I took the boys (and a neighbor) to see Toy Story 3 when it first came out. Since then, we have been watching Toy Story & Toy Story 2 on VHS here at home. I have to say that I have been quite elated with this change...the boys are "playing" with their toys, re-enacting scenes from the movie (my favorite is when Henry is holding Andrew's back as "Buzz & Woody" fly into the moving truck in Toy Story 1), and the newest addition--making their beds and cleaning their rooms!!! :) Thank you Toy Story!! :) It's funny because the movies are mostly about the toys...you don't learn a whole lot about Andy (the boy who owns the toys), except that he has a birthday, he likes to go to Pizza Planet, he moves houses, he has a dog, he has a sister (too bad for Andrew who gets to play "Molly" in some re-enactments), and he goes to cowboy camp. But you do see Andy's room in the movies...and in it the bed is always made, the toys are put away in their toy box (until they "come alive"), and apparently the floor has a rug on it. Henry has been making his bed now for the last few weeks...PERFECTLY. Friday, he asked if he could take a toy box from our living room up to his room and he cleaned up all of his toys. He also shoved all of the shoes that Andrew had strewn across the room back into the closet. TONIGHT he actually took the bathroom rug and put it in his room. He also asked me to vacuum. And when he took his pajamas out tonight, he told Andrew, "Now Andrew, we can't make a mess." Who is this kid?!! :) I love it. Lots of props to the Toy Story writers!!!