Toys! Toys! Toys!

I am continually amazed at the things that children play with.

Elijah has lots of toys. Lots and lots of toys. Too many toys.
His favorite "type" of toy by far are Hotwheels vehicles. The way he likes to play with them is to make them "talk" to each other. So we figured he'd really like the Cars movie that came out in November. And we were right. Now we are totally immersed in the Cars culture.

Elijah plays with Cars stickers, he names his Hotwheels after Cars characters, he has a Cars book and a Cars coloring book. He even has seven of the Cars figurines. But more than any of those right now, his favorite thing to play with for the past 2 weeks are some pictures of the Cars characters that Cris printed off the internet onto some card paper. He would rather play with these pictures of cars, driving them around and making them "talk" to each other, than play with his really super cool Cars figurines that are 3 dimensional and actually drive around on wheels. Hours and hours on end he plays with them.

Which brings me to the question, why do we bother with toys, when pictures of toys are just as (if not more) exciting?