I only really glossed the surface of the amount of spoiling the boys got when we were staying with the Thurmonds in October. Allie bought them scaled monster trucks, bigger monster trucks that made noise and zoomed around, then didn't let us leave without giving them tons of hot wheels, books and all kinds of random toys. When I protested that none of this was going to fit into my luggage, she gave me a bigger bag.
You are out of control, Allie...
And we all loved it!
Even with all that, she told me to just leave the bigger monster trucks and she would ship them to us. She kept texting me to say she was going to send the package any day now, but she found something else she wanted to include. Then today, this *giant* box showed up on our doorstop. I was so confused about not having ordered anything from this company, that Matt had to make me look at the shipping label (from Katy, TX) to convince me it was probably from Allie and safe to open.
Hahahahahaha - of course it was from Allie! And you can clearly see that Thomas knows exactly who is was from. The photo doesn't even do his reaction justice - he was jumping up and down screaming with excitement!
In this package of awesome were their monster trucks, of course. But also, the Hot Wheels tracks we had been playing with - plus a brand new set! More hot wheels. Micro Hot Wheels. Construction trucks that also made noise and moved around. And giant horns...
Guess what was the favorite off the bat?? At least with two of the boys, anyhow. :)
Henry soon claimed both of these and was running around making all kinds of noise. Thus the title of "Allie, What Have You Done??". I actually should be relieved, the box she reused for shipping all this had an invoice still in it for a *dozen* green horns. It made two horns seem downright reasonable!
And what kind of parties are going on at the Thurmond house??
Once Matt and I got the tracks set up, the boys were happy to drop the horns and play with all of their cars. Thomas was telling his dad all about the tracks and how they worked because he quite clearly had not forgotten about them at all in the last few weeks!
We ended up doing car "trials" running pairs of cars down the tracks to see which the best cars were. There were a few clear duds (I'm looking at you, bubble car!), but most of the car shaped ones did pretty well. You can see the winner in this race has already hurtled off the end of the ramp in this shot.
As a side note, you can see Henry holding a Hot Wheels trailer in his hand. Thomas found it in the box and was telling Matt how the trailer was pulled by a truck and tried to hook it up to TowMater. When he couldn't get the two to cooperate, he informed us it wasn't working and we needed to go back to Allie's house to return it. I feel like this was Allie's plan all along...
The micro cars were by far Matt's favorite of the shipment though. These things are tiny, but wicked fast. They are completely unpredictable in the direction they will head because of our floor tiles and we all ended up chasing them around. I caught one and was trying to get a photo of it, but apparently I was taking too long and my eldest stole it from me. (It's tough being the only one who cares about documenting things!)
Despite the title (and the horns!), we loved the package Allie! We still would rather have you come for a visit, but the boys are happy with this for now...
Miss you all and hopefully see you soon! :)