In Search of the Ultimate Toy Box

I’ve mentioned before how Luke likes to put things in strange places…I have found his juice cup behind the couch, in the bath tub, and even in the warming drawer under the stove. I have also mentioned how he has started piling his toys in different areas of the house, behind the TV, by the front door, or even in the tub.


Well now he has combined those two things to find the “ultimate toy box”. The other day he loaded his wagon full of toys and then pushed/rolled it into the kitchen. (By the way, lately instead of rolling/pushing the wagon forward or backward to get where he is going….Luke has been pushing it sideways… ...perpendicular to his body). This is a funny site in of itself.

Anyway, once he got it in the kitchen, he pulled out the warming drawer under the stove and started putting his toys from the wagon into the drawer. When I caught him doing this, he was almost done and I asked him what he was doing and he said “aahh ahh” and looked at me in such a way I thought he was saying “well I found the perfect place for my toys mommy and sister will never find them here”. You see, Luke and his sister have started getting possessive about the toys they are playing with.

After he got all his toys in the drawer Luke went over to the utensils drawer, which he can barely reach when he gets up on his knees, and pulled it open. Then he started taking his toys from the warming drawer and putting them in the utensil drawer. At first the toys kept bouncing back at him, but he is a determined little guy and kept trying. Eventually he got a Lego, plastic strawberry and a toy cup in the drawer…before I cut him off from his little game.

It’s no wonder I have a hard time finding his toys when I put them all away at night. We are still missing several Lego’s and small plastic balls….which I’m sure we’ll find one day…probably when we move from this house and have to move all the BIG furniture.