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(Yes, I'm catching up on some posting. Can you tell?)

Last night we gave Henry his birthday presents from us, since we were out of town on his birthday proper.

His last gift was a big box with a scooter in it. I shoved the wrapped box over to him, and he started pulling off the foil.

Henry (excitedly): "What is it?"
Me: "I don't know, what is it?"
Henry: *rips off foil*
Henry: "Oooooh! It's a BOX! It's a big brand new BOX just for ME! Thanks guys!"
(he's in a "guys" stage)

He eventually got the box itself open, and was just as excited about the scooter itself. Edward, on the other hand WANTED the scooter too. Despite the other gifts, there was a bit of a tussel. *sigh* Opening presents with two toddlers both heavily in the "mine" stage? Full of fail.

They both enjoyed the gifts, though. Henry LOVED the harmonica. So did I, since he can't really make it sound bad. The kazoo, however, stumped him. He just couldn't do anything but blow into it, achieving silence. Eddie got it just fine, of course.

Henry spent a good portion of last evening dancing on the scooter, to the sound of his lovely little harmonica. "Was that song GREAT, mama?" Yep!

We also picked up the Target wooden kitchen. It's a new design, and I can't find it on the target.com site, but needless to say it's a lovely toy. It seems sturdy, has knobs and buttons, and the fixtures look great. We were almost done putting it together, and I pulled out a little box, and asked "what on earth could be in here?"

Believe it or not, they *included* accessories, like a frying pan, a little cookie sheet, and some utensils. No toy *includes* accessories. I was impressed.

And the boys loved it. This morning, Eddie wanted to wash his hands in HIS sink instead of the big one.