I think I've mentioned before that Tucker has a lot of trucks. I think I should rephrase that: Tucker has A LOT of trucks. Recently, they have all come to inhabit a basket that Henny and PaPa gave him. Apparently, the basket is just the right size to completely fill up with Matchbox cars, and yet not too deep to bury any of them. Of course, the trucks do migrate to other containers now and then--in fact, I just noticed that the blue bucket for blocks is what is holding them in the pictures.
Anyway. Tucker has taken to gathering all the Matchbox trucks into one container and toting them around with him. The basket must weigh at least 10 lbs when full, but I've caught him trying to lug it up the stairs (scares me to death!), and it comes outside with him, into bed, and sometimes in the car when I can't avoid it.
Tucker looks wherever he and the cars go for "roads" to drive them on. We went to a birthday party at a friend's house this weekend, and he took his basket of trucks and lined them up on the deep window sill "road." He finds roads on cracks, on patterns in rugs, and especially on ledges. The sandbox lip is one of his favorite roads. He one by one takes all the cars out of the basket and puts them in the sandbox, then one by one takes them out of the sandbox and moves them along the lip of the sandbox. It's very serious business (and it also takes a lot of time.) :)
The only drawback is that the car/basket combination becomes a car/basket/sand combination which is not so great when the next place he dumps them all out is your bed (ie this morning).
