Dear Mega Brands,
Last Christmas, my mother bought a package of your "Mega Bloks" for my son. (I'll forgive the poor spelling, as it's your brand name, so you can call it whatever you want.) I honestly hadn't given them much thought in the 7 months since, as he has been too young to really use them. In the past week or two though, he's been very intrigued by them.
Then came yesterday.
I watched my son sit and play quietly with your Mega Bloks for 45 straight minutes. Keep in mind that in his life, the only two things he has ever done for 45 straight minutes are sleep and cry. He's not a bad kid, he's just a very busy kid. We don't let him watch TV, so the longest we can get him to sit still is 10 or 15 minutes while we read to him. But for him to sit by himself for 45 minutes, not contained by a pack 'n play or handcuffs, is simply amazing.
I don't know that "thank you" adequately expresses my sentiments.
Comments
Syar said:
I'd email you about this, but my college only lets me open my Gmail when its not feeling pissy which is never.
there's something wrong with your italic tags, its making all your other posts bold and italic, and your sidebar too.
unless this is some new omar stylization in which case I say : oooooh....pretty. everything's....slanted.
Glo said:
My URL is too long.
I give Mega Whatevers their due...but where's the glowing praise to the wise grandma?!
Glo said:
My URL is too long.
I give Mega Whatevers their due...but where's the glowing praise to the wise grandma?!
Glo said:
Oops. Sorry. I saw Ken Jennings in your sidebar and got all excited.
wendela said:
This will probably lead to your son being an excellent Lego builder later on. Save up now for the trip to LegoLand here in Calif. He'll love it! (Just watch out for those little Legos all over the floor when you get up in the middle of the night- ouch!!) And, I agree, Grandma did a good gift-buying job.
I said:
Glo, I'm going to leave your duplicates just to help pad the comment count.
Thanks Syar! It was most certainly not intentional. I did miss a bracket for one of my tags, but for some reason, Firefox and Safari didn't seem to notice (or care?). It wasn't until I looked at it in IE that I realized what you were referring to.
Adam Backstrom
said:
I like the bit about TV. How is that working out? Does he notice/care about TV when he sees it on at other houses? Do you let him watch movies and just keep him away from network cartoons? Maybe you wrote about this before and I missed it. I should look into that.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
A product that occupies a toddler for 45 MINUTES??!!!!?
The naysayers who don't believe in modern day miracles will have to eat their words now.
We don't allow our kids to watch T.V. anymore either. The result has been less materialistic, sassy, and precocious children.
Glo said:
Glo pad. Pad, glo, pad.
Jon said:
I see that some of their products have age limits like 3-6 or 0-4… Do you think these are absolute rules or more like guidelines for the unsure? And lets say that you were to see… oh, I don’t know… a 28 year old playing with them. Would you think less of that person?
Lia said:
Jon General guidelines, man. Also, remember, you're only as old as you feel.
Legos and Mega Bloks are wonderful toys. Also the Fischer Price classics, like the farm or the schoolbus.
I just applied for a job with Fischer Price. Then I could play all day.
cadiz12 said:
make sure that kid gets and erector set or whatever the equivalent when he's old enough.
Syar said:
no probs Omar.
what the heck is an erector set?
*silently chants* pad,pad,pad.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Now the truth is known throughout the land that you pad, Glo. Step away from the tissue box!
Every time I read, "Last CHRISTMAS", it makes me want to sing in my very best George Michael voice, "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away".
Nadia said:
ewbl - Oh my gosh! That was the my exact reaction to the first sentence! Gah.
Katie said:
I had wooden blocks that my uncle made for me and my sisters. They were amazing.
I wish I still had them. I think I would be a better person.
Also, "erector set:" ::snort::
Becky
said:
this year, to save me from tears, i'll give it to someone special
ahhh. how nice to think of that song midyear.
haboob
pad
pad
Lia said:
We're definitely overdue for a new "word verification" here.
"haboob" has too many implications.
Cate said:
I'm still back on the pie post - still making me hungry, that whipped cream on pie picture.
cadiz12 said:
all right, you dirty-minded people, i knew i should have said lincoln logs. this is what an erector set is.
btw, that's my very favorite christmas song.
I said:
Whoa whoa whoa. This exceeds the legal limit of George Michael talk on my blog.
Lia, I'm open to suggestions.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Okay, since we've exceeded the George Michael quota, let us all move on to Boy George, shall we?
Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon.
X said:
You come and go; you come and go.
---X
I said:
I expect that sort of thing out of elastic, but X? I kind of feel a little bit betrayed.
I said:
Oh and Adam, he has learned to ignore the TV when we're out. When he was younger, if the TV was on, he couldn't keep his eyes off it. We were planning on slowly introducing TV after he turns 2.
pad pad pad
Cate said:
Whoa. Look at you go Omar, with your bad blog-redesigning self.
Maybe a new word verification would be good?
I said:
Why do you people hate the haboob? I love haboobs! They're so fascinating!
Seriously, you guys need to learn to embrace the haboobs.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Omar has moved everything to the left side.
Is this a political statement?
Jon said:
Hmmm… I’m not so sure how I feel about this left side thing… I’m just going to turn my monitor upside down until I have a chance to adjust…
Jon said:
Plus, as a former all-state comment padding champion (pronounced Cham-peen) I just couldn’t resist pushing the number up to 30…
Becky said:
do you really want to hurt me?
do you really want to MAKE ME CRY?
padpadpad
nice layout.
nice vanilla ice shout out.
nice name tag.
padpad
haboob
X said:
Vanilla Ice?
Stop, collaborate and listen
Ice is back with a brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
---X
wendela said:
My brain's gonna need time to readjust to the blog changes.
*joins the pad-fest*Haboob is losing its charm for your blog pals, omar (I still think it's a fine WV, though). Maybe another H word? Maybe harpoon from the lyrics in X's comments? Hasselblad? Or even humble as in pie? Or since the post it had "wax on", can a Miyagi-inspired WV be far behind?
wendela said:
Your numbers will increase with the new blog look because I, alone, have reloaded the page plenty of times to see the different post-it notes.
Radioactive Gas said:
One of my favorite snob-words: patootie. Or maybe it's patina... I can't remember now.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Let's just go for broke people, and set a comment record right here today on Omar's blog!
I said:
I think we may have already set one. I have a new post all ready, but I've been holding off to see how absurd the padding will get.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
"and time won't give me time, and time makes lovers feel like they got something real, but you and me, we know, they got nothing but time......."
Syar said:
I'm refreshing and refreshing and the post-it still tells me to wax-on. but...I just shaved my legs yesterday you demonic post-it! *throttles Omar's new template*
for old times sake : pad, pad, pad.