A few months ago, Neko started talking about something she wanted to spend her allowance on. I can’t remember what it was, but I suspect it involved inappropriately big boobs or something similar that makes me break out in hives. Anyway, I was suddenly on a mission to divert. I’ll put my foot down if I have to, but if I can redirect Neko’s interest, that’s way easier.
As I was strolling the aisles of Target one day, and stumbled upon the new line of Little Einstein’s toys. Now, I’m not a big fan of bringing more plastic into our house, much less plastic that makes a whole lot of noise, but I do kind of like what those Little Einsteins are trying to do and they don’t have breasts. So I snapped a picture on my iPhone, and so our journey began.
When she saw the picture, Neko got tunnel-vision. She would have that rocket. It would be hers. But at $4 a week, it was going to take 10 weeks to save up enough to buy the $40 rocket. We had forgotten to give her allowance for the past two weeks, so she started a little ahead, but for two months she has dutifully been checking off boxes, never once considering spending her money on something else. Today we hit the magic number.
I should take a moment here to Pat-Pat-Pat myself on the back (Little Einstein’s humor) for having the forethought to buy Rocket a few days after I saw him, since the shelves have been bare since then and they’re going for double the retail price on eBay. Yay, me!
Back to the story, I wish I had video of the moment. I’m not sure Neko was even this excited on Christmas morning. Bouncing and dancing and gripping her scissors to help Tom open the package. I have a feeling life is going to be rather Rocket-acular for a while.