I Used To Have A Brain: Fixing Those Obnoxious Noisy Toys

Kids Say The Darndest Things!

Kids are hilarious and I'm lucky enough to have them cracking me up every single day, so how can I not share them with you! These are just some of the funny things they say.

Izzy, referring to her doll who was apparently very fashionable. "She's very stashinal."

Connor had drooled on Izzy's doctor kit, daycare boy told her, "you should put your dr. kit in your room." Izzy replies very casually, "That's ok, I don't care if he throws up on it."

Izzy told me today, "I'm 4 now." me: "Oh really, when did you turn 4?" Izzy: "I don't know, I just learned my ABC's."

While cleaning up the Elefun game after deciding she didn't want to play anymore, and while Connor was starting to get into the butterflies, Izzy tells him, "Consadurations Connor but you can't play this anymore. I can teach you how to play baseball though!"

Conversation between Izzy and daycare boy. Izzy, "Your froggy umbrella has big eyes!" daycare boy, "I know that Izzy, that's because I love him!"

While visiting my sister-in-law's new house, Mikayla started screaming bloody murder. Nana asked, "Do you have a sliver?" Mikayla while still screaming and sobbing, "No, I have a stick under my skin!!"

We had wild rice casserole for dinner, and Izzy decided to play with it for some reason, making a huge mess and getting it all over her hands. This was her prayer at the end of dinner, "Dear God, thank you for my food, thank you for my family, thank you for my friends, and thank you for being messy! Amen"

Mikayla was writing a story on the computer, and we had just talked about semicolons, when she announced to me that, "I think if I have a boy when I grow up I'll name him Colon, that sounds like a good name." Upon further discussion she decided that perhaps Collin was a better name for a little boy.

Izzy, while playing with little Beauty and the Beast figures: "I can show you the ways of being a normal person. Pick berries, read, wash your hands a lot... " all said with a British accent.

I asked the kids what they like to dream about, Izzy answered, "Princesses.... Meat.... My family....."

Last night we were at my cousins' house and they had a very large family picture framed and hung on the wall. Mikayla looked at it and casually said, "They must have taken that picture with a really big camera."

Daycare Boy after ghost hunting: "I wish I had a pet dinosaur made out of mud!" Because clearly only mud dinosaurs would protect him.

Connor trying to say the word "helicopter": "Bobbicocker"

Izzy randomly asks, "Why did God give us a head?"

Connor heard the outer door getting blown open by the wind and, startled, asks "Who's coming?". Like the good mom I am I say very surprised like, "Monsters are coming" and continues to stare. So I say, "Robots are coming!" Very seriously Connor tells me, "How about Care bears are coming!"

On the way to gymnastics we played a game, here's an excerpt:

Me - "Something I want you to do, it starts with an F, ends with an S, and has a C in the middle"

Mikayla - "Frapaccinos!!!" (intended word was Focus)

Me - "Something I want you to have... I want you to have__"

Izzy - "Babies!!!!" (intended word was FUN!)

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Fixing Those Obnoxious Noisy Toys

Did your kids get toys that make a bunch of noise? I know I know, silly question! Some noisy toys are less noisy than others, some are downright obnoxious. Little Man got a bunch of construction trucks for Christmas which he LOVES, and some of those are really loud. So I fixed them. And I'm going to show you the trick I learned years ago!

Here's one of the more obnoxious sounding toys that we got for Christmas. Don't get me wrong, he loves it and I'm glad he got it! But I'd be less glad if I couldn't do what I'm showing you next. And you should get some note paper because it's complicated.

Look around for the speaker holes, and cover them with a layer of clear tape. That's it! Usually one layer is enough to turn down the volume without taking the fun of the sounds it makes away. If you looked around our house at noise-making toys, you'll find a lot of them with tape on them. Some are quiet enough on the low setting to not need any tape, but many do.

So if you're kids toys are driving you crazy because of the sound, tape them up!

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Prairie Mother · 691 weeks ago

I got that same stinking toy at our house!! Good tip, thanks...now off to search for tape.

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Mindee@ourfrontdoor · 691 weeks ago

Where were you 10 years ago when I needed this?

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Abby 37p · 691 weeks ago

10 years ago the only child I had was an embryo and we didn't know yet!

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mom · 691 weeks ago

Will it work for the drum/instrument set that your number two received. heehee

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Abby 37p · 691 weeks ago

Nope, no fixing those kinds of presents! :o)

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doesanyoneelseknow 27p · 691 weeks ago

Brilliant! Dad will be so disappointed when he gets some noisy trucks for our would-be, someday, hypothetical kid(s). He makes a habit out of buying the noisiest ones he can find for little kids. >.<

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Abby 37p · 691 weeks ago

so he's one of THOSE people? :o) haha!

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