and they had a toy, actually lots of toys, but one particularly cool and wonderful toy: A School Bus.
The charm of the toy was that when you squeezed it, the bus horn honked, the kids scream, and the bus driver yelled "Hey you kids, sit down back there!" That noise fulled our upper east side apartment for several years. Then before we moved to our new home in Jersey City, the bus either got lost or broke. Since then there have been many other toys, but none quite like the bus.
I have searched high and low for a new bus toy for my babies but to no avail. Then a few weeks ago I tried searching for it again online and magically found it and ordered immediately.
The bus arrived and it didn't take long at all for the hounds, old and young, to begin enjoying it again.