Busy Bugs

My friend Jennifer is ready to have her daughter any time now according to the obstetrician.  Jace is three now and ready to be the big brother.  I have been watching the shelves in stores to pick things up for him and of course stuff for his sister.  I about have a box ready to go.  I wish I could mail myself in it.

Of course, all the cutest little flip flops were marked down in Target last time we were there so I got some for next summer.  I never pay retail and I never buy anything until the store needs to get rid of it.  You can't live by that for groceries, but just about everything else, oh yeah.

I also buy coats in April.  At any rate, toys don't go out of season much so they are harder to buy.  I found one called Busy Bugs and I got it although it says for ages 3 and up.  I don't know if it is for Jordyn or Jace or for Jace to wind up to play the song for Jordyn.

The song is Beethoven's Fur Elise.  I have always loved that song.  It's just a little wind up music box and the top, instead of a ballerina in place, it has two lady bugs that waltz around, only they aren't attached.  They are made with egg-shaped bottoms like those toys in my childhood with the commercial that went:  Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.  So the little circle top dance floor rotates and the weeble lady bugs whirl.  It's pretty nifty.  We had to take it out of the box and make sure it worked and of course, observe how it worked.

I like it so much I wouldn't mind having one of my own.  But I totally have no use for it.  Still, all this week, every time I was in my room I'd wind the Busy Bugs up and listen to the song and watch them spin.

Kim said I am being juvenile.  I said I am A.) being pensive; B.) gloating; C.) bonding with Jordyn from afar; or D.) all of the above.

The answer is D.  I am pensive and homesick for Jennifer and her babies.  I am gloating because the toy is so cool, and I am thinking that this same little music box will be somewhere in her house, that Jace will keep winding it up for her even after he loses the lady bugs outside, she will like the song too, and something that was part of me for a week will be just a little bitty part of her babyhood.  Since I can't be there.

I'm going to mail it this week.  The only thing wrong with it is it doesn't wind up for very long.  Seemed to me like I couldn't fold half a load of laundry before the song wound down.  I'm counting on Jace to keep the tune tapping.

It's all I got right now.  Since I can't be there, it'll have to do.