Secret Vengeance

Do toy makers have a grudge against parents? I think the answer is simple to see when you open a new cabbage patch doll for your two year old. Just to open the box alone, you have to slice through 6 sections of super duty, won't break no matter how hard you pull it tape. Once opened (after a few finger slices) you must pull and squeeze at the proper ratio to remove the inner package from the outer package. At this point your thinking "Almost there", but you are mistaken! Not only do you have to untwist all the twist ties, but you have to remove the same super duty tape from the twist ties first. After twisting, twisting and more twisting, you can now pull th doll free...OH NO...there's more tape! You fight your way through the tape only to find you forgot to snip 8 sections of thread (that are super thin, yet somehow indestructible) that are stitched to the box. Once finished, you wipe your brow and breathe in a paper bag for a minute or so. You hand the doll over to your child who joyfully receives it. That smile on her face makes it all worth it...then five minutes later, she throws it down and it's history.

At this point, you MUST remember! You made it...you are a survivor, a victor! Your hands may be sore and covered in band aids, but You conquered the box! You will live to see yet another birthday in which you can test your skills by hacking through the ever increasingly difficult toy packaging!

It had to happen eventually...

Mark received his very first set of stitches on Tuesday. He decided it would be a great idea to stand on the bathroom counter and look at his handsome face in the mirror! He figured out it was actually a bad idea as he fell off and busted his chin open on the floor. It was a pretty bad gash. Dad took him to urgent care and he came home with four stitches. I got the bum deal, however, because my new job is to keep him from busting it back open for the next couple of weeks. (yeah, right. The boy who was standing on the counter!) Well, it took me a while to get these pics up, but here they are in all their gruesome glory!

Kids At Play

We bought the kids some "new" play equipment off Craigslist for 50.00. I put it together by myself today! Woohoo! They played on it for about 45 minutes until everyone got too hot (very humid here). This is the first outside play stuff they've had. It was fun to see them playing on my BARGAIN!

Markers and Crayons Have Babies!

I have come to the conclusion that markers and crayons are asexual. You know that you can scour the entire house top to bottom. Take every crayon and marker, throw them in the trash, take directly to the dumpster and the next day you find your two year old has found a marker and has colored your couch, walls, herself. I'm telling you...these things reproduce. Anyone who has children knows this is fact. It's probably some secret government conspiracy like Area 51 or something. Join me on my mission to wipe out this disastrous race of Art products! Ok...well, I guess the kids need crayons, but the markers MUST go!

Hoping this post finds you Marker free!

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