‘Tis The Season?

We took advantage of M. being at preschool and C. not commanding the language well enough to share secrets to take our youngest one along with us today to Toys R Us to scout out the hottest toys for the holiday season. Place was packed. I’m not sure if it was people using their two hour window for voting to actually get a jump on Christmas shopping or maybe Tuesdays are always a busy day, but it was strange to find the place hopping at noon.

I was shocked – SHOCKED I say – that there are Star Wars Lego sets that run $99.99. I’m pretty sure I made an Imperial Star Destroyer that looked pretty sweet out of my box of random Legos 30 years ago. Sure, it wasn’t a “limited edition” but it was still pretty sweet.

Speaking over over-marketing, I know Dora and Diego are every-freaking-where but having C. with us really reinforces that. Every five seconds she was saying “Doh-wa!” “Gah-go!” “Boot!” “Bah-pah!” That’s Dora, Diego, Boots, and Backpack for you non-parents out there. You can’t walk five feet in that store without seeing something that is Dora/Diego branded. I hope the creators of the show got a nice piece of the marketing pie when they signed their contracts.

Anyway, I guess my whole point is that Christmas seems to come earlier every year. Of course, Woody Boyd would respond by saying that if I checked, <a href=”http://www.tv.com/cheers/thanksgiving-orphans/episode/14176/summary.html”>I would see it always comes on the 25th of December</a>.