Obviously, we can’t always give into his immediate desires, but his persistence definitely gets to me after a while, causing me to actually WANT to get it for him, not because I’m tired of hearing about it, but because I know how much he will appreciate it and play with it.
Luke has always been so appreciative of every gift we have given him, thanking us profusely for it for several days or even months after he gets it, so he really is a joy to buy for.
One day he was at the Lopic’s house for a short time and was already obsessed with GI JOE, when Becky showed him Transformers because she just knew he would love that too (as if he needed one more obsession!) So he came home non-stop talking about how he HAD to have a transformer. Obviously I wasn’t going to go out and buy one that second, so he was asking me to MAKE him a transformer!! Now how was I to do such a thing?
He was to take a nap (but couldn’t go to sleep unless he knew I would at least attempt to make a transformer). I ended up spending the entire nap time figure out how to make a transformer. It actually turned out kinda cool. I made a paper firetruck with the wheels and front of the truck attached with metal brads so that they could turn. When you turned the wheels and the front of the truck it turned into the arms, feet and head of the transformer. Not bad for a not-so-creative mama.
Luke has always been into animals since he was about 2 years old, but a couple he just HAD to have were a snow tiger and an owl. He must have seen a Marty Stauffer episode about a snow tiger because out of the blue he became obsessed. Where would I EVER find a snow tiger though? Low and behold we see a snow tiger just the right size while Max and I were in Ocean City. It was actually one of the prize options at a games booth, but we just asked the guy if we could pay him for it instead of play the game for it. It was so fun to surprise Luke with it the next day.
The other animal he had to have was an owl that we saw in a gift shop on our way to Philly in the fall of 2010, which my mom ended up getting him a version of for his birthday. He still sleeps with both of those animals a year later
A few other obsessions were that I make a ninja turtles mask, a darth Maul mask (I spent about an hour one day drawing a detailed Darth Maul face on a paper plate and then it barely got used), a double bladed lightsaber (2 dollar tree lightsabers taped together with ducktape), and of course . . .
Jango Fett- probably the most obsessed he’s ever been about ANYTHING. Out of the blue he started talking about Jango Fett and how he is his favorite character and HAD to have a Jango Fett! for 2 days straight he wouldn’t stop talking about it, and again couldn’t fall asleep because it was on his mind so much. He kept begging to go to Walmart to buy Jango. Finally, I told him I would call walmart and see if they had it just so he would go take a nap, and we told him that Daddy would look for it on the way home. When Max got home, he said that they didn’t have Jango Fett anymore and boy did he get Luke good! That was one of the best surprises ever!
However, Isaac took quite a liking to him and quickly became Jango-obsessed. He was not even 2 years old yet, but would sit for an hour or more at a time playing with this action figure! He has some of the best fine motor skills for a 2 year old. He also loves taking apart the little legos.
Probably the oddest obsession Luke ever had was that of wanting me to make him and Andrew a diaper so that they could pretend to be babies. I finally caved into his incessant bugging and pinned together two cloth diapers so they could crawl around like babies!
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