So if you know me, it doesn't take long before you figure out that I never grew up. I mean I did... but didn't... I literally have the heart and energy of a little kid most of the time. One of the biggest things that contributes to this is my love of toys and action figures. Going down the toy aisle and getting a new figure is always exciting for me! Seriously my wife bribed me to put up curtains in our bedroom with a Legacy Megazord...
So somehow I kept a lot of my action figure addiction hidden until after I was married... My "action figure closet" was something my wife had apparently not seen until after we were married. I will never forget walking into my office (which then turned into a "craft room" and now a nursery) [Don't worry fearless reader I have a new office, and it's better than ever!] and Brittany was just standing there, silent, staring into the closet, with a complete look of disbelief and shock in her eyes. It still makes me laugh thinking about it. She knew I loved toys and action figures, but I don't think she knew I had this many. To be fair the closet was unorganized and crammed full of stuff... She is fully on board with the toys though and helps me hunt whatever figure/toy I'm trying to find! I mean check out this post on her blog, Pink Glitter Pumpkins.
A lot of people don't understand my love for toys, but that's ok because they don't have to understand it. Playing with GI Joes, Transformers, etc was a big part of my childhood. I can remember my little brother and I playing with Joes together. I remember the excitement when I got my original red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger for Christmas. Now that I'm older I can finally afford all the toys I want! Buying figures and still being attached to them helps me feel like a kid and remember the good times I've had.
I have plenty of my figures displayed and out of the packages. I typically do not believe in keeping toys in their packaging (I know, blasphemy right?) because what's the point of having the figure if you can't touch it or show it off! I do have some toys still in the boxes but that's because I either don't have the right display for them yet or they became way too valuable to open before I could display them! I'll probably end up opening them eventually though...
So Melody is probably going to be the luckiest girl ever in terms of toys. She is going to have a dad that loves to collect and hunt toys. The hunt is a large portion of the fun for me, so if she needs that purple special edition rainbow My Little Pony I'm going to be hunting it down. After all, I want her to experience toys the same way I did. My parents always came through with that rare and hard to find toy for me and I want to be able to do the same for her. I want her to have just as magical of a childhood that I did. (I'm not saying toys made my childhood magical but they were a part of it!)
Let's just hope I can keep her out of all my toys... that is going to be a challenge...
