Bins

I did not get Turing anything for his birthday, making me the worst parent ever*. I had actually gone to the store to get something, but failed. Everything was either:
1. Boring and aimed at the adult buyer, not the child
2. A little too complex for right now - better in a few months (like a train set)
3. Involved small parts I don't want to keep away from Huxley
4. A variant of something we already have.

It was really number 4 that got me. We have two puzzles, for instance, so we don't need another. Turing has a "laptop," stuffed animals, puppets, baby dolls, big legos, trucks, trucks, trucks, blocks, crayons, some musical instruments . . . we have very limited space, so getting a variant on something we already had seemed wasteful in a lot of ways.

Tonight, my task is to split the toys into two groups so we can put half of them away in his closet and rotate and the number of toys won't seem quite so out of control (the amount of floor space one can see has drastically been reduced since the reappearance of all those baby things: a bassinet, a carseat, the playmat). As I split things apart, I'm not sure if I should put like-things together or in separate piles. The babydoll and the Diego doll in the same pile or separate? the golf clubs and the hockey stick? The two puzzles? The two laptops?

I'm going with separate at the moment.

*not actually true - I organized his birthday party and he's still talking about the farm, now, made cupcakes, and knit a hat that way waaaaay to large. And we figured out what to get for xmas - a kitchen play set and a train set. phew.