Last Tuesday was Riley's third birthday. Berta stayed home to prepare things for the day. She took Riley out and bought a lot of balloons and a cookies-n-creme cake that he picked out himself.
Since we ordered a few things for him from the mail-order toy catalogs as gifts, they were a bit delayed in coming, so we didn't have any gifts to give him on his birthday. Instead, we all went to the toy store and picked out a few things that Riley liked.
He picked out one of those claw/grabber things, where you squeeze the handle and the claw at the end of the extension arm closes. He also picked out a big two-headed rubber dragon from among the rubber dinosaurs. We convinced him that he might like this staff-glider toy that comes from the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's a "wooden" staff that turns into an air glider, and he's been flying around on it often since then....
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