The Travelling Toy

It's like I knew nothing, absolutely nothing about what to expect when the kids started Kindergarten and school. I'd been to Kindy and school, albeit a long time ago, but I knew you wore a uniform, took lunch from home, played in the school yard and learnt stuff. Little did I know there'd be a 'travelling toy' to take home, to photograph and give an insight into what life's like at your place. Those poor toys!

For the uninitiated, most schools, Kindergartens or day care centres in Australia, have a resident toy. They usually differ from year to year and I assume that would be because of the state of the toy, after all that travelling, and it'd be ready for the trash! 

Awwww, this is when I love him most!

The toy gets to spend around 2 weeks at your house which means you have 2 weeks to get photographs taken of the toy with your child, the rest of the family, the pets, on a bus, in a car, in a plane, on a boat, on a slippery slide, at the dinner table. Basically anywhere you are, the toy is there too. It just about drives me crazy because at the last minute I remember that the toy is here and I better get some photos. We do the whole dinner table, in bed at night, with the kids playing etc but it's all getting a bit boring.

The following photos would probably be better.

Nosey at dinner time with the fussy eaters

Nosey trying to break up the fights

Nosey...just stunned...as I would be!

My daughter had a travelling toy in Kindergarten and her 1st year of school in Prep and now my son has done it and will do so again next year when he starts school. After that, if I never see another stuffed toy in a pretty drawstring bag and a scrapbook, I'll be happy.

(PS My photoshop skills are just as bad as my scrapbooking skills.)

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