Oh boy!

There was a sharp knock on the door.
It surprised both of us, as the knock was unexpected and it was on the door we don't use very often. Bug has two entrances to his home. The one to outside with the automatic door opener on it and the second door that goes to the hallway. I use this door to access the laundry room and mailbox.
Once Bug registered the knock, he said with delight, 'Batman!'.
There wasn't a second knock but I could hear something being set down on the floor outside the door. I quickly unlatched the deadbolt and was greeted by a female postal worker.
'I was going to leave a note,' she exclaimed reaching down to grab the parcel. She handed it to me and dashed off to make more deliveries.
I carried the small cardboard box to the dining-room table. It had the familiar Amazon.com markings on it. Bug was wiggling in his chair with excitement. He'd been anticipating the arrival of this set of DVDs for a few weeks.
Bug's excitement reminded me of a quick clip I saw of him when he was about four years old from old family movies. It was Christmas and Bug was sitting on the floor leaning against him Mom who was helping him open his presents. As each new neatly wrapped present was put in front of Bug he would exclaim, 'Oh boy, oh boy!'. That excitement was with Bug again as I hastily tore the packing tape from the box, releasing three colourful DVD sets. Vibrant graphic images of Batman, his sidekicks and villains adorned the three cases. This series was originally aired in the early nineties. Bug used to watch them with his friend John.
Bug has been talking about getting this Batman for some time. We'd check out the prices of the boxed sets at HMV whenever we were in the mall. They're an expensive set and the price always forced us to walk away. Several days Bug would log onto the computer and stare at the listings for this series on Amazon. Each day he'd report that the price had or hadn't changed. Then one day I got an update that the price was surprisingly lower, in fact less than a third to half the price in the store. I told him to go ahead and order them using my credit card number. He asked if I was sure.
'Go for it.'
Bug promptly tapped out the order, added the items to his shopping cart and proceeded to the virtual checkout. Done! Now all he had to do was wait.
'Now I can't wait until I get the Superman series next!'. That's Bug, always looking ahead to the future!
For me... I'm going to be a Batman widow for the next weeks as Bug hungrily devours the contents of these discs.
It's great to see how much joy these DVDs can bring him.
'Oh boy, oh boy!'

Until the next time...