What's in your Turtle Basket?

For his very first Easter, Grandmama Owen gave Nicholas a little plush turtle basket filled with wonderful Easter goodies. Of course, the goodies are long gone but that little turtle basket is still very loved. Nicholas keeps it filled with various little trinket toys and it stays in his bed right next to him each night. He will sometimes bring the basket to other places in the house during the day and play with all the little toys or he may dump out the toys and use the basket for some other purpose. Sometimes the toys get changed out with other toys he's playing with that day. But, no matter what, we must make sure that Turtle Basket has made his way back into Nicholas' bed by night time or we will never hear the end of the whining and begging for it. I've even had to go out to the car at night in the cold just to retrieve it for him so he can go to sleep.

Every now and then we just pull out the toys from the basket to see what he's collected in it recently. I asked him what was in his basket this week and he proudly displayed them all for me.



Turtle Basket has:
1. A mini measuring tape that can hook on something
2. A futuristic-looking Hot Wheels car that looks like it is covered with solar panels or something.
3. The remote control for his Moon in My Room (another thing that he MUST have at bed time!)
4. 2 little brown seals that are actually bath tub toys
5. A rubber snake
6. The Batman cake topper from his 3 year birthday party
7. A Mega Blocks police car
8. A food basket from the Fisher Price Little People Noah's Ark toy
9. 2 green army men that he got as a prize from Chuck E. Cheese
10. A mini Batman in a yellow and black costume
11. A blue ring from some infant toy that has long been put away
12. An astronaut
13. A yellow fish squirt toy, another bath tub toy
14. Luke Skywalker action figure from Uncle Steve
15. A purple CAt Woman keychain which was some kid's meal toy
16. A little blue ninja (he calls it an "inja") that he got as a prize at Peter Piper Pizza
17. A helicopter
18. A giraffe from a Fisher Price Little People Noah's Ark toy
19. "Baby Blue Bear" which is a little beanie baby that I got at my baby shower. It says, "It's A Boy!". Nicholas loves to sleep with him at night.
20. And last, but not least, a little brown bear that my brother gave me as a present when we were young.

Wow! That's a lot of junk! But let's see, there's a story here somewhere.

Alert! Cat Woman has stolen 2 seals, a snake, and a giraffe from the zoo. The zoo keepers call in the police and the army to seal down the zoo to protect the rest of the animals. Batman, his mini-clone, and a ninja are called in to try to rescue the stolen animals. They throw a blue ring around Cat Woman to capture her. They have saved the animals!

Suddenly, two giant bears the size of skyscrapers appear on the scene and start tearing up everything in sight. Luke Skywalker gets in a helicopter and uses the measuring tape to see just how tall they the bears are. Wow! They are bigger than he thought. He's going to need reinforcements! He calls his space friend, the astronaut to help. The astronaut flies up to the bears in his Hot Wheels space car and squirts them with water from the squishy fish. The bears start to melt! Hooray! Everyone is safe again!

What a night! I guess it's no surprise since we all know that the crazies come out when there is a full moon like tonight. Everyone is tired and hungry. They take a break and enjoy some of the wonderful food in the crate from Noah's Ark.

Hmm, they just seemed like a bunch of random junk toys to me. I guess there's no telling what can happen when you throw them all in a turtle basket together!