Belly, 9:
Jilly, almost 7:
and D, 5, the one that doesn’t like “art”:
Wordless Wednesday: The Art Show
February 24, 2010
FollowSleeping on the job
February 22, 2010
I’ve had a cat for most of my adult life, and one of the benefits of cats is that they keep mice away. Even when I lived in a little house in the woods, I had no mice because my cat would play with them to death whenever one dared peek his little head out into Zack’s territory.
I still have a cat. But, Cally is almost 19, deaf and has lost all sense of smell or “mouse instinct”.
How do I know this? Well, I now apparently have mice.
Mice who steal the cat’s dry food out of her bowl and store it somewhere for a rainy day.
Let me repeat that: they steal cat food from her bowl. The bowl that is approximately four inches from her head which rests on her cute little cat bed.
I bet the first mouse to take the risk of being so close to a cat was pretty timid, but now, they are probably super bold, dancing up to her as she sleeps and sticking out their little mousey tongues.
I can’t even tell her how pathetic this all is. She won’t hear me.
The isle of misfit toys
February 17, 2010
So, I just got in from New York, and boy are my legs tired!
Ba-dum-bump. . .
But, seriously, my legs ARE tired after walking approximately 1,023,784 steps in two days trying to see all that is new and interesting at this year’s Toy Fair for the most fabulous Cool Mom Picks.
Rest assured, kiddos, there are loads and loads of cool things coming your way in the near future, although there are probably more toys that you should truly hope go away really, really fast.
I visibly flinched everytime someone picked up a bubble-gum pink toy and said, This is our girls’ toy! Especially if it would be an equally cool toy for boys if only it wasn’t being produced in day-glo pink (I’d personally like to make it “cool” for boys to embrace pink, but I think I’d be fighting an uphill battle on this one.)
There were plastic dolls dressed like ladies-of-the-night. I’m not kidding.
There was an electronic toy that walked, talked and rolled its eyes. But most amazing? If it fell over, it was able to pick itself up so the kids wouldn’t have to lean over and pick it up. Because, we all know our kids need to move LESS.
I overheard one vendor saying how she’s glad that her piece of electronics isn’t considered a “toy” (even though it is clearly for kids) because it means she can skip all that pesky safety testing necessary for children’s toys.
I overheard another two vendors complaining about the safety testing they have to do, and how they plan to do only what is minimally required by Wal-Mart.
But, the absolute loser moment for me at Toy Fair? It was seeing a ride-on three-wheeler bike for girls. But instead of leaving it as just a ride-on toy, it was branded with stickers all over it. Whose names were on those stickers? Oh, just Danica Patrick and her sponsor, Go Daddy. Because isn’t that just perfect for your little 5-year-old?
Ugh.
