Our son got a Smyth’s toy store voucher for his birthday, so we decided to go at the weekend, just me and him as daddy was painting.
For anyone who hasn’t been to Smyth’s before, it is literally piled floor to ceiling with toys! I really like the way the shop is laid out, each aisle is a theme and there is every toy you can think of!
I parked outside and said, let’s go spend your birthday money. We walked in and the escalator is in front of the front door. He loves escalators so wanted to go up. To the left of the escalator on the ground floor is the Lego, piled floor to ceiling, a million boxes! He looked over and said ‘oh wow’ we were only upstairs a minute and he was down and straight over to the Lego boxes.
He has never been interested in Lego even though we have tried. He has a few Duplo and Lego Junior sets, but doesn’t look at them. He really isn’t in to toys at all, but we are trying.
He pointed to a Lego fire engine and said ‘I want that one’. It was age 6-12 and I knew it was far too old for him but again he said he wanted it when I said it may be to old for him. I picked it up, knowing I wouldn’t be buying it, but he was happy I picked it up.
Then comes the Playmobil section and his eyes lit up! I loved seeing him so excited about the Playmobil sets. He pointed to a police station with a police car, helicopter and some people and said ‘I want that one’. I asked if he wanted the police station or the Lego fire engine, and he said police. It was a big box, so I said let’s go a walk incase there is anything else, then we can come back. Each time I pointed at something, he just said ‘I want the police’ – so we got the police!
It wasn’t cheap, and honestly I was thinking, he is never going to play with this! But, he picked up the box and carried it to the checkout.
I made it up when we got home, and he looked at it for 2 minutes!
Maybe one day he will play with it – if not, there is always eBay!!
Super Autism Mum 