we ALL scream for ice cream!

Okay, so how adorable is this-  Tolman, ALL BY HIMSELF, put together these little "ice cream man" baggies for his friends.  He is WAY into the ice cream man this summer (I swear he can hear that thing from 10 miles away) so in each baggy was 8 quarters, a piece of gum (random) and a paper with each of his friends name on them, so he knew who's was who's. 

Then he carried them around in this basket for days and days just waiting for he ice cream man to come around.  He kept asking if he could deliver them to his friends, but I was the "mean mom" that told him he had to wait til the ice cream man came.  So here is the basket that went everywhere that Tol did. And if you look closely you can see that the baggy on top is for 'OIN,' or Owen.  Get it, O-in?  I thought it was awesome seeing how he came up with the spellings for some of the names.
 

The much anticipated day FINALLY arrived and it was so freaking adorable!  Tol is outside with a bunch of friends and I'm in the house when all of a sudden I hear the ice cream man.  Not 20 seconds later Tol comes running in the house in full panic mode looking for his 'basket.'  I hurry and help him locate it and Tol is out the door running towards his friends as fast as he could yelling, "Guys!  Guys- I got it!  I got it!!" with one hand holding the basket and the other hand holding his shorts up.  He is also running in full straddle to help with the shorts-falling-down situation.  HILARIOUS!!! and again, adorable.

Luckily his friends had stopped the ice cream truck (or van) and it was the BEST watching Tol's face as he rummaged through the basket handing out each friends personal baggy.  He was BEAMING!... and so were his friends.  There were also some random kids at the van so Tol also gave them money from the other friends' bags that weren't there. 

Ice cream for all, on Tol.

And I think we may have found something that Tol likes better than sugar, and that's...
making it possible for friends to share in his obsession.