It was the summer of 2009 and we were doing our best to stimulate the local Michigan economy on our trip to the family cottage in Holland, Michigan. The wonderful independent toy store Sand Castle in downtown Holland had Baseball Guys, Football Guys, and Soccer Guys for sale. After much, much, much pondering…Drew chose Baseball Guys and played with them non-stop the rest of the stay (when we weren’t on the beach). As we started our 10+ hour journey home, we talked about what we enjoyed most about our time at the cottage. Never in a million years would I have thought that discussion would lead to a full-blown screaming, kicking, crying tantrum in the backseat…but it did. All because he didn’t get the Football Guys (too). This tantrum lasted from the Holland City Limit all the way to the Indiana border (approximately 90 miles). And then when we could not take it anymore, we made the call to Granny & Pop…asking them to please go to the store and buy the football guys and ship them home to us.
A few days later, the Michigan Football Guys arrived on our porch and we’ve been a “Guys” house since.
Our Hockey & Soccer Guys came directly from the source – Santa Claus via Kaskey Kids. You can also check out the Kaskey Kids website and see if there is a local store near you that sells them. (I recently saw Soccer Guys at our local independent - and totally amazing - toy store Creative Kid Stuff after buying them straight from the website.)
In case you’re curious, there are now eleven collegiate football teams available (in addition to the three available neutral sets): Alabama, {National Champion} Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee, and Texas. [Sorry, Grace…no Wisconsin or Packers]
And, I think I should give some full disclosure on Leo’s astonishing creativity with his own version of Guys. Leo has three drawers all his own in the kitchen island that are quite bare – except for the drawer liners, some bowls, cookie cutters, spatulas, and random toys he puts in there (including a recent discovery of Drew’s baby doll, baby Taylor, over the weekend). Leo loves taking these things out – including the liners – pretending to cook, set the table, and then put it all away. So, it wasn’t like a big light bulb went off in Leo’s head that led him to a full kitchen drawer of kitchen gadgets to empty and pull out the liner for the first time ever. He’s had the liner on the floor before with cookie cutters on it…just never guys from the other room. Still remarkable in my book. But, not totally genius like you might have been thinking.
Until next time…when I hope to FINALLY have all Leo’s finalization paperwork complete (these legal documents are so not intuitive)
2 comments:
Yikes, I'd better not tell Jason about the Auburn guys...or he's want them for himself.
thanks for the info, sue! peter is a bit crushed that they have several big ten teams but no wisconsin, but i think some of the generic guys might be coming our way soon! :)
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