He Is Obsessed With It!

For his birthday my son got one of those rolling toys that acts like a vacuum only with the balls in it that pop when he walks with it. I didn't realize what I had done until he got his hands on it for the first time. He grabbed that handle and when he figured it out it looked like the world was completely different to him. If I take it away he cries, if he drops it while he is playing he cries, if he falls down while trying to back up with it he cries and balls up in the floor as if the world has ended because his play was interrupted by a moment of clumsiness. The first day he played with it he got so frustrated that he kept falling that he went into a crying fit on the floor. I tried to pick him up and console him a bit, but he got even more mad that I picked him up. I put him back down and then he cried because he was struggling to pick the toy back up. I helped him pick the toy up, and the system started all over again. From giddy to concentrated movement to inconsolable devastation and back to giddy again. Who knew one toy could draw so much emotion out of a child? All he wants to do now is pretend to vacuum and nurse. I should have known he loves it when I vacuum. Even when I am not vacuuming he walks around the house with me looking for his treasure, the big yellow sucker-upper. His eyes light up when he finds it, and then I have to find some way to distract him from his most favorite big person toy. The baby sized vacuum has been a blessing in this respect. I just keep thinking one day he will want to touch that vacuum and I will say "go ahead get the whole house." Hopefully he will still like the idea. It would be great if he loved chores.

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