Goo and Bella

Monday, November 13, 2006

Garnet learns the concept of Emphasis

Last night we were at Target and we purchased a new toy for Garnet, her lastest obsession is called The Littlest Pets. Anyone who has bought any toys recently knows that the packaging process has gotten a bit out of hand, and Hasbro who makes the littlest pets is especially crazy.
They double wrap them in hard plastic and all the little pieces are rubberbanded to the package and then everything is banded together with plastic coated metal ties and lots of tape. They must spend more money on packaging the product then the actual product itself.
So we get her the toy, and of course she wants to play with in the car, i mean i can't blame her when i get a new toy i want play with it as soon as possible as well. So we do the usual speech "OK sweetie we will try and get one of the pieces out, but you know the package is difficult to open, we may not be able to get them all out, We will open it all when we get home" and so on.
She's usually OK with this explanation, and she took it OK then but said.
"The next time i get a littlest pet, i'm going to call them and tell them not to make the package difficult to open, and i'm going to say the word "Effing" so that it works.
At some point our friend Scott started saying just the first letter of Fuck so everything would be Oh Eff that, or what an Effing A-hole. Now he didn't teach Garnet that, that was us, her parnets. well we didn't directly teach her to say F but you know they pick these things up.
On the bright side if you have read any other of our post's you would see that she used to say "Wucking" that was before she could make the F sound.
So despite the fact that she's learning to curse, I felt proud that she understands the important concept of Emphasis, and that if you need to get something done you have to say the word Fucking! in some form or another.
Yes i know, we're bad parents. Actually, you know whose fault it is? Shoplifters.
Steven.

3 Comments:

  • At 10:13 AM, Blogger Squeakyrock said…

    editorial comment: add a photo of the littlest pet product so that I know what the eff you're effing talking about.
    You guys are great parents.

     
  • At 10:53 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    http://www.hasbro.com/littlestpetshop/

     
  • At 9:45 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Amy just turnded us on to this, I can't believe you have kept it a secret. It will bring hours of enjoyment to all! That first picture of goobella (that is a funny word, you know how I love to meld names together)is kreepy. Bella looks like a doll, and goo looks crazzzzy.
    So I am on line, almost afraid to reboot to see if the fix to my computer melt down worked, so I am making progress in the area of fixing my computer. Oh I just realized this is the first time in days I have been able to use my keyboard, duh, so the fix must have worked!
    I drempt of biscuits and gravy last night. mmmmmm
    "You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day."-Alexander Pope

     

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