Last year for Christmas Noah received gifts of money from Kevin's dad as well as from two of my sisters. We pooled the money and bought him a big Playmobil castle. It took me hours on Christmas day to assemble this castle. The pieces are microscopic and come by the hundreds. What a job!
The castle has seen a lot of use since it was received. It was a popular enough toy that we brought it with us in our limited air shipment from Switzerland so that Noah would have it for the 6-8 weeks that we were living in our temporary apartment in Boston while waiting for the rest of our belongings to arrive by sea.
Once it was time to move into our house, we then had to move all of our belongings from the temporary apartment to the house. What a nightmare! Up and down in the elevator countless times and numerous trips between the city and the new house in the minivan to unload.
One of the last loads from the apartment was completed by Kevin and Noah alone, while Rebekah and I stayed out at the new house. When Kevin and Noah arrived with the van packed to the roof, the Playmobil castle made its appearance in a big plastic bag. Hmmmmm....the castle should not have fit in that plastic bag......
As it turns out, the castle fell to its doom during the move. Kevin crawled around on the floor in the hallway of the apartment building hoping that he found all of the tiny castle pieces so that it could all be re-assembled again.
The problem was, I no longer had the instructions! Who would have ever dreamed that I would have to assemble that castle a second time?! I attempted to assemble it again....there wasn't a hope that was going to happen. So after some time on the internet to figure out which castle it was, then a phone call to customer service at Playmobil, a charge to my visa for a new copy of the instructions (yes, they charge you if you were dumb enough to throw out your first copy), and two weeks of waiting for the new copy of the instructions to arrive, we finally have the castle back together again!
Noah is a happy boy.
2 comments:
Oh, the things we do for our kids ...
yeah, and now the thing is sitting there gathering dust...he played with it for two the first two days until the novelty wore off...
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