Coast to Coast(ers)

As we were driving home from Houston today, I was in my sixth hour of trying to entertain Grayson in his car seat and getting toward the bottom of the bag of toys when I realized we likely have the world's most-travelled set of coasters.

You see, our son is in L.O.V.E with a set of rubber coasters we bought for about $3 nearly five years ago. They are round and come in three colors - black, white and red. If you've been to our house or on a trip with us, you likely know exactly what I'm talking about.

He likes to bend them and stack them and chew on them and so on. They are probably the closest thing he has to a "lovey" or sentimental item. They've gone with us to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in the car across three states to Mississippi, on many a roadtrip to Houston and pretty much everywhere in between.

He's been infatuated with these coasters since he could roll over and grab them and I'm amazed that they still continue to entertain him even to this day.

I love them because they are lightweight and easy to take anywhere, but they are also a silent toy that does not require batteries (whohoo!).

I'm curious to see how long this will last. I really thought once he started walking he would care less about the coasters, but now he's discovered new ways to play with them. He can take them in and out of cabinets and his toy truck with storage in the seat, or he can put them in the mailbox of his Learning House like they are a letter.

Now that he's mobile, we find random coasters all over the house. I'm beginning to wonder if he'll have to have a couple of coasters in his kindergarden backpack or, worse yet, in his stuff for college. At least he'll have a place to set his beer.