Supporting the local economy

Demonstrating our sense of good civic responsibility, we helped many of our neighbors clean out their basements this weekend and provided them with some extra spending money at the same time. Translation: you should see the cool stuff we found during the annual city-wide garage sale.
Among the favorites: a doll house with a whole bunch of people, furniture and mini-sizes toys for Sydney, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume for AJ. Though a close second is a

"Pirate's Treasure" Matchbox Car track, complete with spinning, cackling skeleton.

It's fun to watch the kids mix and match their old toys with their new. An old Spiderman action figure is the perfect size to fly AJ's new fighter jet. And his old Playmobile pirates are enjoying new digs aboard a pirate ship commandeered by none other than Captain Hook. The ship and Captain Hook were lucky finds from two separate sales.

I don't think Daddy appreciates all the new treasures quite as much as the rest of us do. 'Course, he happened to arrive home unexpectedly early from the Armory, when all of the toys, along with a few hundred Legos. were spread out across the floor. That probably explains the raised eyebrows.