A Bargain, A Hand-Me-Down, and One Splurge

We've got some great new toys around here that we've been having lots of fun with recently:

If you know me at all, you know I love a good bargain, so after Christmas I waited for Target's Christmas toys to go on clearance and picked up a few little things to put away. One thing that never made it to my hiding spot was a huge tub of Mega Blocks. We've spent hours dumping them out and building all sorts of towers and towns and castles. "Bok" is one word Wes definitely knows. But he wasn't too impressed with my spelling his name though, he just wanted them down off the mantel.

And this wonderful hand-me-down came from a fireman Mike works with who obviously has a girl :) But the Barbie stickers came right off and maybe someday soon, Daddy will paint the pink parts black. But if not, it's still a pretty awesome Jeep, and Wes is going to love driving it as soon as he gets the foot pedal action down pat. (right now he's giving himself whiplash with all the jerky starting and stopping he's doing!)

And finally our splurge:

A new sandbox for the backyard! We were over at Auntie Chrissy's house last week, and Cody and Wes had so much fun playing together in his sandbox that we figured we needed one too. We tried to find one on Craig's List, but ended up with a new one from K-Mart and 200 pounds of sand from Home Depot. (And play sand is expensive!) But I have to say it was money well spent because Wes is loving it and he is constantly asking me to go "out"!