Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Cereal toys

Do you remember when you were a kid and you would go to the grocery store and beg your parents to buy you a certain box of cereal because of the toy inside?

My kids often ask for cereal because of the toy on the box, but I've told them you have to mail away for toys because they don't put them in the box for free anymore.

Casey, as you may know, loves SpongeBob. One day a few months ago, he saw a SpongeBob reading timer on a box of Smore's cereal. I think it times you while you read a book. Casey begged me to let him buy the cereal and mail away for the timer. I did and it finally arrived today in the mail.


Casey and his reading timer


When he opened it, he was sooo excited. Here's the discussion that followed...

Brett: Is this the best day of your life?

Casey: Well...almost.


There is an episode of SpongeBob where he and his friend, Patrick, mail away for a toy and wait months and months for it to arrive. When it finally arrives, they play with it for about five minutes and it breaks. Let's hope that doesn't happen to us!

1 comment:

Janette said...

That is hilarious! My boys begged for the Disney pedometer's in Fruit Loops back in May...they wanted to take them on our trip to Disney World and "get healthy" (thanks to Logan using them in gym class last year). That was fine and good until the things jumped up 10 steps everytime you even barely moved hahaha!! So much for cereal toys -- they just aren't the same as they used to be :).

Hope Casey enjoys his reading timer!