hello toddler years

while we were putting away jecobie's "baby toys", to make room for his "toddler toys", pistoy suddenly starts playing with the baby toys, as if to say goodbye to them. the first toy he picked up is the first rattle toy that made him laugh as a baby.

is this a preview of the many "graduations" to the stages in his life? natatawa ako na naiiyak kanina. joys (and pains) of parenthood. =)

he picked up a microphone, and few more. then, he probably sensed that we're not putting away everything. so he moved on to the ones that we're leaving out, and started playing with them, as if to assure them "don't worry, i won't let mommy take you away, i'll play with you and they'll see i still like you around". *lol* tawa kami nang tawa ni je. hay naku, sa tatay pa nagmana! whenever i ask je to clear up stuff, he would reason out why he still needs it, even though i haven't seen him use the stuff for at least half a year. jecobie's the same. he hasn't touched some of the toys for months, then suddenly he is super interested. 

anyway, so we took out a full 3-layer drawer of toys, and some small stuffed toys. pistoy is never a stuff toy kind of kid. he never had a lovey either. we just kept the big ones that he says good night to, like puppy dog, bunny and giraffe. wait, those are not common nouns, those are their names. =P

as the year ends, i feel like we need to sort out a lot stuff. his old baby clothes are in a box in the room's "attic". i recently retired a lot of clothes too. i need to organize them into boxes in case we need them in the future. 

anyway, after the toy ordeal is done, jecobie just went to his pillow, lied down belly first, and fell asleep. he probably wanted to sleep the sadness off. well, we're not putting the toys away to the attic, we're just moving it to the guest bedroom. it will be accessible and easy to get to if we need to bring out toys when we have guests with kids. and of course, when jecobie misses his baby toys. or mommy/daddy misses seeing jecobie with his baby toys. whichever comes first. =P