When I first got married, I had a Clapper. I received it as a gift when I was a teenager and it was a fun novelty item. I had it hooked up to my lava lamp. It got broken in one of our first moves and has since been lamented and laughed at, alternately.
Gary recently had a birthday and I bought him a Clapper just for fun. Well, it turns out that a Clapper and a house full of kiddodiddos is not a good combination. The claps need to be evenly spaced and we are all really good at clapping. However if a noise happens betweens the claps (or if someone else claps just off beat), the clapper will not turn things on. So now we have A LOT of yelling that sounds like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBDiYuEkP4M\
Yes, just like that because Santa brought Pee Wee's Big Adventure for Christmas.
The extra yelling, combined with the extra crying (stop clapping, it's messing me up) and the lights flashing off and on with every random sound that could be clapping is less than ideal.
Perhaps I should have noticed there are only quiet, old people in the advertisements. Maybe it will work out better for us in about 40 years!
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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We were sitting around watching Gilligan's Island tonight (thanks John and Molly!!!) On the episode we were watching the castaways were gathering up metal objects to melt down to make an anchor. Ginger and Mary Ann offer up junk jewelry. Gilligan offered up his skateboard wheels. The kids laughed and shouted out "who takes a skateboard on a deserted island?!" Then they remembered that Jonny took his skateboard on a recent camp out and laughed even harder at that.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Little Singer
Rachel loves to sing and entertain. It does not take much to get her to do "Gotta Dance" from Singin' in the Rain. Her latest favorite song is one she made up that goes like this:
The hot dog and the crackers
And the bread in the toaster
Had some breakfast with some bowls of cereal
(fill in the next few lines any way you want, that part changes around)
While driving around in the car the other day, she asked me to sing the "Night in Jail" song. I told her I didn't know a song like that. She told me I did, it was from Cinderella. I insisted that I didn't know a song about a "night in jail" but she contradicted me saying "it's the Sing Sweet Night in Jail one" OH Yes I do know that one. It took some real talking to convince her that it's "nightingale." I think we had to watch the movie for proof.
Rachel received a gift card for Christmas to Toys R Us. She perused the whole store looking for just the right thing and finally settled on an umbrella and a pair of high heels. She says they are her tap shoes. She makes walking and holding and umbrella look like hard work... and it is when you are 2. Soon she will be a real pro.
The hot dog and the crackers
And the bread in the toaster
Had some breakfast with some bowls of cereal
(fill in the next few lines any way you want, that part changes around)
While driving around in the car the other day, she asked me to sing the "Night in Jail" song. I told her I didn't know a song like that. She told me I did, it was from Cinderella. I insisted that I didn't know a song about a "night in jail" but she contradicted me saying "it's the Sing Sweet Night in Jail one" OH Yes I do know that one. It took some real talking to convince her that it's "nightingale." I think we had to watch the movie for proof.
Rachel received a gift card for Christmas to Toys R Us. She perused the whole store looking for just the right thing and finally settled on an umbrella and a pair of high heels. She says they are her tap shoes. She makes walking and holding and umbrella look like hard work... and it is when you are 2. Soon she will be a real pro.
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