Happy New Year!

Another Toy Warning!

While Floam is fun to play with, it is basically made of the same filling that is used in bean bags...so while your kid will enjoy molding it into things that are supposed to resemble dinosaurs, cars, etc..., you'll spend the rest of the day cleaning up the pieces, or even worse, if you have small kids at home, on the phone with poison control after you realize that they ate a bunch of the pieces....

Warning: Hazardous Toy from China

Seems like all the concerns about toys from China has died down this year, but my kids received a toy for Hanukkah that warrants a post, hopefully i can save other parents from the anguish and anxiety that it caused in my house.

Within 10 minutes of listening to the repetitive noises, and watching the Ken Kesey-esque psychadellic lights, you'll be ready to jump out a window.

If someone offers you one, my recommendation is to say "thank you SO much, but I already have 2 at home" or something like that....

My first 09 prediction...

here's my first stab at a prediction for 2009...
I think 2009 is the year that high fiber steps out from the shadows and grabs the spotlight....we've already see it happen to food with multi-grain items being everywhere...but in 2009, i think metamucil, which has been around and living in obscurity for more than 80 years, will become the next Red Bull...They may need to do something about the name, but I believe that when 2010 comes along, I guarantee that I won't be the only one sipping a Stoli-Mucil.

Burning off the chicken fingers

A lot of people have told me that having 3 kids so close together in age would be great cause when they got older, they would "entertain" each other...guess these laps through the kitchen are what they were talking about....

Twenty (at least) Questions

We were pretty much snowed in on Sunday, and I spent a good amount of time with Sam, my 3 1/2 year old...I guess its age appropriate, but he asks a lot of questions...here's a running list of those asked during just a 15 minute sit down at the kitchen table....broken out into themes...(most of the time he asks his questions with the word "Right?" at the end of his sentence)

Hanukkah Related

• Do policemen save menorahs as well as people?
• Do policemen have memorahs? What about police ladies?
• Do policemen light the candles?
• This candle looks like a leaf, right?
• Hanukkah comes every month?
• What holiday comes in November, thanksgiving?
• my menorah looks beautiful, right?
• what's this hairy stuff again? (a pipe cleaner)
• Next week when i get bigger, i will celebrate christmas?
• do you get dreidels on Hanukkah?
  

While watching the patriots game on TV

• Why is there snow on tv also?
• Are they making snowballs?

Related to the movie Ratatouille

• all the cookers have buttons on their shirts, right dad?
• The cookers are all really silly, right dad?
  

School related

• every wednesday is show and tell, right?
• you can see what my job is in school right?
• i wasnt the door helper yet, right?

All people know what Spanish is, right?

Kentucky Fried Nasty

Tried a healthier approach to dinner last night, used ground flax seed to bread chicken cutlets....
i know what you're thinking, sounds putrid, right? must've been pretty disgusting, no?
well, in short, yeah, in retrospect, a pretty bad idea and while they didn't look terrible, they were basically inedible....

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