Archive for April, 2008

Doobins and the Light Saber


On the way to see the latest Veggie Tales movie, Doobins said that, if he liked it, we could buy the DVD and bring it home with us.

It was a natural presumption. Doobins and Sparkle Girl see most of their movies on DVDs and, generally, the only question is whether we are going to buy or rent the movie they want to see.

In the process of explaining to him that he wouldn’t be able to get a DVD of the movie for months, I told him all about growing up in a time when nothing could be recorded and how, if you wanted to see something, you saw it when it was broadcast or you didn’t see it at all.

He was unimpressed.

Lucky for us, he didn’t say anything about buying the DVD when we left the theater.

More recently, somone gave him some Legos versions of Star Wars characters. The light sabers were missing. When he said that he needed to get some light sabers, I agreed wholeheartedly. If you are going to have Star Wars men, you definitely need light sabers.

After we found some on eBay and ordered them, he hopped down from his chair, went into the living room and started putting on his shoes.

“Where are you going, Bud?” I asked.

“To pick up the light sabers.”

I had to explain to him that not only could we not pick them up right now, it was also going to be at least several days before the mailman delivered them.

I left a while after that. When I checked in with Garnet later, she said that Doobins was perched in the front window keeping an eye out for the mailman.