Once again I’m joining in with Hanna’s Spotted Photo Theme Challenge where we look through our photos to find ones that match the theme. July’s theme is toys, and with three kids I have a lot of photos with toys in them, so I looked for some where the toys dominated and there was a bit of a story.
First up, when our daughter was in year six at school she skied in the Victorian Interschool Snowsports Championships. That was all fine, but on the last day they were skiing back to the lodge to go home and she fell and broke her leg badly. She had to be transported back to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne by road ambulance because the helicopters couldn’t fly due to bad weather. When she went into surgery her teddy bear went with her and when she came out, the bear had a bandage on it’s leg as well.
This day I came out to the garage in the back of our garden to find the two girls had got into the bag of pea straw I used to mulch the garden. Youngest daughter is putting straw in a cup, eldest is in the empty bag (you can just see her feet poking out). Evidence that kids don’t need actual toys to have toys.
The image above is from our time at Disneyland and one of the parades. These are the GI Joe’s from the toy story movie.
I know there’s a few of you out there who also loathe Monopoly. My kids and husband loved it and since G wasn’t always home, they’d try to rope me in. They didn’t succeed. My daughter loved it so much she chose to make a variation on Monopoly for a school project with the task to make a board game. **Monopoly deal is fine.
And I certainly couldn’t miss a photo of lego. I have no idea what the pieces stuck on the wall are about.
Are you a fan of Monopoly?
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8 responses to “Photo Spotted Theme: toys”
The bag of hay as entertainment – cracking me up. My kids once got into the attic through a small door in my closet that I didn’t even know they knew was there. They hauled out pool toys and filled some with water and my upstairs was a total (wet) free for all. (they were really little and I think it was a case of gang mentality where so long as they were all in it together, they fed off one another).
I hate Monopoly, but I never knew that other people hated it. One summer when I was about 11 or 12, I played games with my two younger, pompous, overly competitive brothers and their friend, who my mom babysat all summer and who was like having another brother. My sisters were off babysitting or doing drivers ed, so they were not involved. It was boys against me and I always lost. I would become physically combative with my next youngest brother (he’s the pompous one) to the point that game pieces were lost in our rumbles and my mom issued a rule that Pat and I weren’t allowed to play Monopoly against one another again. Fine.By.Me.
Oh dear, that sounds like the Monopoly did get out of hand. The pool toys inside is a good one, I suppose I should be thankful that my kids saved their big messes for outside.
I didn’t like Monopoly as a kid, my mom HATED it and would not let us use houses and hotels because someone would always get wiped out and end up in tears.
But…Monopoly Deal is a great game!
And LEGO is such a staple.
All of my kids loved playing with lego for years, and they would all work together to build these amazing worlds.
Hahahaha the straw photo! I love kids.
I don’t mind Monopoly but rarely did we play it. It’s better if there is a specified end time. It’s also better than Risk. Once my brother and I played it for like a week.
I’ve never played Risk and it sounds like I don’t want to.
Leave me a lone with monopoly. My dad always gifted a board game for Christmas which we then immediately played. But Monopoly was going on for two days – I am pretty sure we didn’t read the manual correctly. After that we rarely played it because who has time for that. Also I didn’t just like it.
That straw photo is so precious.
And how lovely the doctors took care of the Teddy Bear as well. I bet she loved it.
The Teddy was a bright spark in a traumatic experience.