Backpack! Backpack!

The arguing is still a daily battle in our house.  One source of contention since the beginning of 4K is the backpack Alex uses.  He has had this cute little Lightning McQueen backpack for about a year and he was dead set on using it for 4K.  The emphasis on the description of this backpack is "little."  It is a challenge to get a folder in there and have it lay flat.  It's possible, but it's a challenge.  And then you add boots and snow pants and anything else the boy has decided absolutely has to come with him that day...that thing is jam packed!  Packed to the point his first folder was destroyed in less than a month, so I had to get a plastic one.

Why wouldn't I buy him a new, bigger backpack you ask?  I did!  Multiple actually.  And he didn't like any of them.

After some planted backpack adoration from his cousin, he was convinced to use the first one I bought as a replacement for Lightning.  It's huge on him and has way more than enough room, but it fits his stuff and he can get his folder in there by himself which is a nice change of pace from the other one.

Monday was the first day we used the new backpack.  I put his stuff in and he asked if he could take a toy to keep in there for the day.  Sure!  You could take 73% of your toys in this bad boy!  He threw his toy in and then had the stones to look up at me and say, "Mom!  This backpack is huge!  You shoulda bought this one first!"