JerseyJanice
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My son will be celebrating his 6th birthday next week. (Where does the time go? I swear I was pregnant with him yesterday.)
Anyway, he already has more toys than he knows what to do with. His biggest interest at the moment is baseball, so DH and I offered him a chance to go to a live NY Mets game in lieu of other gifts. He wants to go to the game, so I printed out the Mets schedule and brought it home to figure out which date we should buy tickets for.
This coming Friday, the Mets play the Diamondbacks at home, and it's Snoopy doll night. We'd love to go to this game, but getting to Shea Stadium by game time with DH's work schedule will be very tough. So DH and I settled on a game in September that is on a Sunday afternoon, playing the Expos, and the promotion is a Mets lunchbox.
In the meantime, we had a game on TV this past Sunday. DS was watching it, and I was in the kitchen. He ran in to tell me tickets are available for Snoopy Doll night, and it's when he wants to go. I tried to explain how difficult it would be to get there in time, and he got upset--it's his birthday, why can't he pick the game he wants, he wants the Snoopy, yadda, yadda.
So I showed him his old lunchbox and explained that he'd get one similar, but with a Mets logo on it, at the game we're going to. He started crying and saying he didn't want a lunchbox.
Somehow, we got past all this drama, and later in the day, I saw the Snoopy Doll commercial he saw. Well, no wonder he wants one! It's adorable! It's a stuffed Snoopy wearing a blue sweater with a Mets logo.
And silly me was arguing with him, "a lunchbox is great. Why don't you want a lunchbox?" The kid must have been thinking that I was busting his chops.
Anyway, he already has more toys than he knows what to do with. His biggest interest at the moment is baseball, so DH and I offered him a chance to go to a live NY Mets game in lieu of other gifts. He wants to go to the game, so I printed out the Mets schedule and brought it home to figure out which date we should buy tickets for.
This coming Friday, the Mets play the Diamondbacks at home, and it's Snoopy doll night. We'd love to go to this game, but getting to Shea Stadium by game time with DH's work schedule will be very tough. So DH and I settled on a game in September that is on a Sunday afternoon, playing the Expos, and the promotion is a Mets lunchbox.
In the meantime, we had a game on TV this past Sunday. DS was watching it, and I was in the kitchen. He ran in to tell me tickets are available for Snoopy Doll night, and it's when he wants to go. I tried to explain how difficult it would be to get there in time, and he got upset--it's his birthday, why can't he pick the game he wants, he wants the Snoopy, yadda, yadda.
So I showed him his old lunchbox and explained that he'd get one similar, but with a Mets logo on it, at the game we're going to. He started crying and saying he didn't want a lunchbox.
Somehow, we got past all this drama, and later in the day, I saw the Snoopy Doll commercial he saw. Well, no wonder he wants one! It's adorable! It's a stuffed Snoopy wearing a blue sweater with a Mets logo.
And silly me was arguing with him, "a lunchbox is great. Why don't you want a lunchbox?" The kid must have been thinking that I was busting his chops.
I don't blame him - now I want the Snoopy doll, and I didn't even see the commercial!!
