Sometimes I wonder why we even buy toys. It seems like kids are just as happy playing with something random, free, and already in the house. I remember one year my sister announcing that she was going to give her kids boxes for Christmas. Great big boxes with markers and scissors to decorate them with. She did, and they loved it. Some of Owen's current favorites are the kitchen whisk, any kind of lotion bottle or tube (especially small travel size ones that fit in his hand nicely), the bathroom scale, magazines, the broken wheel on our computer chair (he likes to spin it), watching the laundry go around in the washer/dryer, and the laundry basket. Usually he is content to play with the basket on his own, but every once in awhile Dave gives him a little ride around the house. Some things never change. More than twenty years later, a laundry basket and a belt prove to be just as entertaining as ever. Despite my grumpy face and partial mullet, I know I LOVED this. And yes, that is in fact the SAME laundry basket in both pictures.