You know how they just don't make things like they used to? Like how Hungry Hungry Hippos used to be already put together and in a box big enough to store it that way and had real marbles instead of plastic ones? Or how the pieces in the game Cootie used to really stay on? Well, my mom has these Play Skool building blocks that were mine when I was little. They are by far the most consistently-played with toy at her house (at least by my kids) and Brett's most favorite toy anywhere. He just loves blocks! My little set of blocks had about as many as you see in this picture, so Mom and I decided we wanted to get some more to add to it. Well, you can't just buy these blocks any more. They've been downsized in size and number and Play Skool doesn't exist any more so we were on an Ebay mission to find the same ones so that the sizes would be a good mix with the ones we already had. She ended up buying 3 sets of blocks from the same era and then went out of town, leaving Brett the responsibility of checking out the new blocks as they came in! He was thrilled to have that job! And here he is with one of the new sets right after it came in the mail, "testing it out". He loves building temples out of blocks and now he has plenty at Grandma's to build whatever he wants! Aren't grandparents great?
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