Cynical Mom

Should I worry?

So Jared and I read this book, "A Scary Old House", occasionally - maybe about two or three times an hour. It's got a great plot that builds slowly - first there's a scary forest, with a scary house in it... and in the scary house there's a scary staircase, and so on. It's riveting, you just want to know what's next.

Eventually the boy makes it to the scary room in the scary house, in which there's a scary cupboard. Next to the scary cupboard is an 'old style' portrait from the neck up of a woman in a high-collar dress.

The first time we got to this page, Jared pointed at the picture and said "She used to be a Mommy. But she's dead now."

This toy seems risky

So, you like Barbie. And you like dogs. What could possibly be better than combining Barbie and Dogs into one elegant toy? And if you want to be realistic, as all good toys do, then you really need to have a user scenario whereby you perform some common actions for dogs - naturally that would be feeding and cleaning up their poop.

You might notice that the food in Tanner's bowl and the poop she's scooping look eerily familiar. That's because they are the same object. That's right, the food that you feed to tanner... then comes out. Handy.

One of the greatest joys in parenting

Is that you don't just get to teach your kids, but you also learn from them.

Take me, for example. While putting my son to bed tonight, he taught me something that I can honestly say I never knew.

"Mommy, do you know, when you see a yellow poop, it's not really a poop - it's a pee hive."