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For a McDonald's Toy?
Super cool and amazing tiny pieces of plastic junk are now available in every McDonald's Happy Meal! My son added the first couple of adjectives and I bet you can guess who added the last. I have to hand it to McDonald's in the cars they hand out in their happy meals each summer; they do make the little boys go wild. Thus, my son does all within his power to be a perfect little angel so I deem it worthwhile to drive over to McDonald's and buy him a happy meal. It took a full minute for my son to jam the torpedo shooter, which catapults from the grill, in the wrong way and render it useless. But, I would not take defeat so easily. I had driven all the way to McDonald's to get that toy, spent over three bucks for ancillary food to get that toy, and listened to the baby scream through all of it to get that toy. It wasn't going to break on me now. I rumaged through all my husband's tools to find something to wedge the torpedo out, while my son followed me around the house asking if I could open up his apple dippers for him. "Forget the food! I'm trying to fix the toy." I said in frustration. Did that actually come out of my mouth? I put the toy down, helped him with his apple dippers, took a deep breath, found a flat head screwdriver and slid the torpedo out. Then my son jammed the torpedo in the wrong way again. Where did it all go wrong?
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posted by
Sheeky
on May 27, 2008 at 02:56 PM
it's at this point you simply say "YEAH! you did it! you destroyed the enemy car with its OWN weapons! You saved the world!" Then it goes from a broken toy to an imaginitive success! posted by
bushelandapeck
on May 27, 2008 at 03:54 PM
Wow. What a great mom you are. I would have helped the kiddo throw it in the trash. And then that would have reminded me t look for other amazing tiny pieces of plastic junk to toss. (We have a toy fairy that comes through some nights and weeds out toys.) posted by
We4do4H
on May 27, 2008 at 04:16 PM
I have the same toy fairy that cleans out the little toys every now and then, usually when I find them in the floor board of the truck and have stepped on them. But my in-laws are the big toy dropper-offs (I know that's not really a word but it works!), they will save every toy from happy meals for a month, then bring them all to my house. Usually I'm good at leaving them in the bag until they leave, then I toss the whole darn thing in the trash can without the boys ever knowing what was in it. And oh heaven forbid if one son gets something the other wants or didn't get, it's a fight over getting them the same toy or different toys to share. I just love those restaurants. Since we don't have them up here they are a treat for the boys when we go to town, but now Cole has associated town with those places and thinks we should go there every time just b/c we are in town. Where did I go wrong with this little treat? Mommy has to have some grown up food sometimes doesn't she?!
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