Collections

Brayden has always been my pack-rat. He saves everything. It's all "organized" in his room on his desk, dresser, bulletin board or up on his wall. All of his stuff has a special meaning or memory attached to it and he wants to keep it. It's important to him and I respect that, and I let him do it.

But his collections are always changing. He changes his mind quite a bit on what he deems collectible, or worthy of his having around. We have gone through collections of tools and old pieces of wood to eventually build his elevator, trains, hotwheels, action figures, sticks, bugs. And then he expanded to pencils, rocks, legos, pokemon cards, marbles and webkinz.

The past few months he has decided he loves maps. He got two giant maps for Christmas--one of the world, the other of the US and he has them hanging in his room. He studies them constantly and is always giving us geography trivia--it's awesome. He also loves globes, and got his first one a few weeks ago. A garage sale find for $1--score!

He ordered a Quarters of the Fifty States collection book from a school book order, and has been scouring any and all pocket change he comes across to complete it. He's more than half way there, and he is so darn excited. I love seeing him get so excited about the simple little things. I hope it's something that lasts throughout his life.

There are a few things that are harder to collect, and we have to talk about how maybe it's not so economical or space friendly to collect these items. A few weeks ago, he acquired this:

We talked, and in the end he decided against the sombrero collection.

Thank heavens.