When Davies was about 2 he loved Toy Story. He had Buzz Lightyear pjs, pants, soft toys, hard toys, books, towel – you name it. He watched Toy Story and Toy Story 2 over and over again. He went out dressed as Buzz regularly and for days would insist that we call him Buzz while we were addressed as other characters in the film. The Christmas he was 3 Disney On Ice came to Manchester where we were living at the time and featured Toy Story characters so we took him along. Front row seats with the chance to shake hands with the characters at the end. I’d never seen a child so entranced and for weeks afterwards he would recount, with wonder in his eyes and words, how he’d shaken Buzz Lightyear’s hand. It was fab. 🙂
Davies has always been a fairly literal child – although he has a big and vivid imagination he is also very clear that it is indeed his imagination and as such doesn’t have much time for fairies, Father Christmas and so on. He decided when his tooth fell out at the weekend that ‘we won’t do fairies Mummy, I’d rather keep all my teeth in a box’ (bloody hoarder, just like his father :roll:), but today, even though he was talking about what good costumes the characters were wearing there was still something really rather magical about him ‘meeting’ Wallace and Gromit. I’d put out his W&G T shirt to wear – which was a good move as he was imediately hailed as ‘Oh look, your biggest fan!’ when the costume characters helpers spotted him. He went to three of the appearances and stood for the whole half an hour each time entranced, touching their hands, hugging them and chattering away to them even though they could only communicate back in sign language.
He was also giddy with excitement and drove me mad, but that’s beside the point 😆
We had a lovely day at Drusillas, with plenty of time in the pool, some walking round the animals, some flamingo challenges which we even had random passers by joining in with (stand on tiptoe, on one leg and tuck your head under your arm :lol:), some time at the play area, some ice creams (thank you Ros 🙂 x). Oh and did I mention the giddy excitement? 🙂
Scarlett was rather shocked at how big they were, which threw her enough for her not to want to go anywhere near them, but thinking that she would only come home to regret that we persuaded her to come and meet them and for the last half hour she too was chattering away and hugging them as well
Home for tea and a watch of Doctor Who which my mate Dayve was in as an extra to see if we could spot him (we didn’t) before a bath for D&S and off to bed. Ady and I watched Miss Potter which we both really enjoyed and now I’m off to bed too, as I’m working in the morning so need to be up at a proper hour :).