"I Only Hope My Veruca Doesn't Want One"

It's almost hilarious how little kids want everything they see. They are pretty indiscriminate in their desires too. I think Zach would probably take a big rotten potato if it was wrapped up with a price tag at Toys R Us. And I'm pretty sure he thinks I work all day just for the pleasure of buying him toys. If I actually wrote down everything he asks to receive as Christmas and birthday gifts and added up their prices, the total would likely exceed the GNP of a small island nation.

So it was no surprise when he asked for a snowmobile after sitting on this one at the zoo a few years ago. I can't say whether he actually knew at the time what this machine was for, but he wanted it nonetheless.

Fortunately, the sheer enormity of items he asks for surpasses even his ability to track them, so he has long since forgotten about the snowmobile. Now, if I could only get him to forget about the time he saw that monster truck...