I Think He is a Keeper

Jackson has always been our little collector. When he was younger he would load up the stroller with all of his treasures. He also would confiscate all of my plastic shopping bags when we would get home from the grocery store. He would fill them up with all of his favorite things and store them in his room. There would be bags and bags and bags in his room full of his stuff. When Lucy was born, she bought Jackson a Diego backpack. Those of you who know Jackson know that this backpack is always with him. When he goes to bed or naps, he takes it into his room and stores it safely behind his bed. When he wakes up in the morning, he brings it out into the living room with him. He has now accumulated two more backpacks. So there are three backpacks to move in at nap/night time and three to move out in the morning. He is constantly putting "treasures" into the backpack. It is SO full. Today I thought he and I should clean it out together. This is a picture of the contents dumped onto the kitchen floor. I was in awe. There were brochures from many of the events we have been to over the past six months, halves of toilet paper rolls, about 40 plastic bugs and figurines, markers, sticky notes, socks, two chapsticks, and anything else he thought had value that he came across in the past few months. He would get a new toy and immediately want to go put it in his backpack. He said he was packing for Oklahoma. I don't know where this packing tendency and love has come from, but it is pretty intense. :) He is our little keeper and he is definitely a keeper.