Who Cares What’s On The Inside
It is a fair assumption to say that no one is perfect. While some people excel in one arena, others excel in another. What initially attracted me to Dadisodes the most was our ability to, in a sense, compensate where the other lacks. I’m technically challenged. He’s a technical director. He rarely shows emotion, I watch Animal Planet for 5 minutes, and cry. We level the scales nicely sometimes.
I suppose this attributes to why I miss him while he’s away at work. If a telemarketer calls, he’s not there to sternly request that our number be removed from their phone list. I just look at the caller ID, and don’t answer. Or when a spider creeps along our living room wall, he’s not there to relocate it outside. I just monitor its movement throughout the day, hoping it won’t find it’s way near me. And lastly, when our daughter finds a kid’s meal toy from the night before and demands to have it put together, he’s no where to be found.
I despise reading directions. He usually just takes them away from me and says, “Here, let me try.”
But he wasn’t home yesterday.
“Ooh! Mommy! Whas dis toy? Can you open it, please?”
“Sure honey. Oh look. *groans* It’s a…uh…some kind of bug….with directions. Joy.”
I scanned the packaging for the suggested age the toy was suitable for.
Sure my daughter is only 3, but she really enjoys putting things together, plus I was helping. Sort of.
As I opened the plastic packaging, I removed the paper bug insect pieces and instructions all in one sheet. My daughter meticulously removed each bug appendage from the page and set them aside.
“Alright, mommy needs to read the directions now, okay…”
Sweet jeebus! Those are the directions….for a 4-YEAR OLD?! Seriously? A four. year. old. Have you seen the directions for IKEA furniture? There’s a screw and an arrow. That’s it! How is a 4-year old supposed to figure this out?
After 20 minutes of wishing my daughter would just watch TV folding each piece as instructed, the bug was not looking very healthy.
There was no way my daughter would be able to fold the tiny edges of the model into tinier places, even with assistance. So I plugged on. And on. And on. And on.
A full. hour. later… I finally reached success.
“Look honey! Look what mommy finally put together for you… Uh, honey?”
“Um…thank you Momm…”
*Places model bug down*
“Ooh… look at the pretty paper Mommy!”
*sigh*
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Oh that is hilarious!
I feel that way with my husband some times — I’ll spend hours perfecting the crust edge on a pie and he’ll chunk out a piece and lay it upside down on a plate.
I’ll fuss and he’ll say something like, “It tastes delicious, honey.”
Grrrr….
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October 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am
HAHAHA! Typical!
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am
bwaaahaaahaahaa
kids are the damndest little things, aren’t they
Good job putting that together Mom 
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Haha! That’s a funny situation you got there! At least you have accomplished overcoming an obstacle in assembling a toy. He he!
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:23 am
They do have special toys for under 4 that do not require welding torches. Usually it’s just a book like the one your daughter was so enamored with.
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am
LOL! Kids, eh?
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:40 am
My husband and I are the same…ying/yang. Only I’d be like YOUR hubby, and he’s be like you with things like directions and assembly! LOL. Great post. Funny, all that work for that silly grasshopper? Wow!
BTW, I have my part two up of my ghost post if interested. Whoooo
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Oh yes, the gottohaveitnow, then fuggettaboutit 5 mintues later…gotta love kids.
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Hmm, that totally screams boy toy. I’m the fixer and assembler for the most part at our house and the kids have no idea how good they have it. I will fix stuff that hubby has no problem throwing away! Must be the frugal packrat syndrome.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:11 am
That’s usually how it goes. By the time the toy is assembled the child has found something else to amuse herself.
I think we may be kindred spirits, my husband is very technological and I. am. not.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Those instructions kill me. They look like they are for building a rocket, not a bug! I am impressed with you. There is no way on the planet that I would have been able to focus and follow the instructions. I would have just tried to put the thing together and hope for any slight resemblance to the photo. I would have got the glue gun out. That is a woman’s alternative to duct tape. Babisoide’s reaction is hilarious! She had so totally moved on. Hahaha! Too funny.
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I NEVER read instructions – except when assembling furniture (because mistakes tend to be expensive) – but i usually just go at it. Which frustrates the shit out of SWMBO. It’s just God’s way of letting me get even. A little.
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:55 am
That is the exact opposite of a happy meal.
(Torture…)
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:29 am
LOL!!!
You would be surprised at what a four/five year old can figure out. As long as there are pictures, it’s all good.
(My son has been known to figure out directions before I do)
October 30th, 2008 at 11:47 am
That was really for a 4 yo? GEEZ!
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Holy moly! I’d have given up and put on Animal Planet after about five minutes. (Sob!)
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:57 am
You did better than I would have! Directions are so very foreign to me like math. I usually just toss my restaurant toys into the goodwill pile before they even see them. I’m a meany.
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October 30th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
At least you had “fun” putting it together!
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October 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Im with missy wiggins
Id NEVER have gotten that thing together and my Toddler wou ld have learned some new words
along the way….
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October 30th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I’m with Christine, I would have gone for the glue gun!
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October 30th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I am the same way. I can not, for the life of me, put together Happy Meal toys…and my husband just does it. I am mechanically challenged.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
This is hilarious. At least there were directions. We had a heavy paper racecar like that once, and it has about 11 jillion pieces, and no directions whatsoever for assembly. Then, once it was finally all together (45 minutes later), it slowly starting coming to bits. So we had to take the whole thing apart and start all over but this time gluing the pieces together as we went. By the time we were done, it looked pretty cool. But no one wanted to play with it. *sigh* From now on, I”m just going to tell them that those are just coloring pages, not pages from which you can build something.
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October 30th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
You are a good mom. That is one VERY big bug and it would have disappeared on my watch.
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October 30th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
You are such a good mom. hehe.. I would probably bribe my kids to do something else after seeing the instruction.
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I see you’ve been to my house – she’s learning from mine. I’ve actually started to hide the meal toys. The multiply like rabbits and are pure crap anyways.
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’m sorry….there is NO WAY I would have made it all the way to an actual bug. Great job!! I have become so pathetic since meeting my husband…..I used to put furniture together BY MYSELF before I met him, now? I wouldn’t even be able to put together that paper bug.
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
That stuff is easy for me. I used to love doing it as a child. But I sure can relate to the story — all that effort and then no interest. What worried me most was, are you gonig to make Babisodes terrified of giant praying mantises for the rest of her life? I’m terrified of them when they’re normal size!
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
So funny! Good job on putting the bug together. That is a lot of instructions…LOL. I never bother reading manuals for anything like TVs and video game consoles, but that bug looks pretty complicated.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I believe it’s safe to assume you will not be taking up Origami.
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Holy crap! Those directions are insane!!!
MISSING!!!!!!??????!!!!!!! That is terrifying.
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Holy cow, those directions! You deserve an A+. And, apparently, the title of insect engineer.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Typical 3 year old
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
No way could I EVER put that bug together… I’d have so many things folded wrong, etc.
*eek* sorry to hear about your friend. I will keep my fingers crossed!
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October 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
PMSL!! Sounds familiar! That’s one awesome bug though, you clever mom!!
How sad about Kathleen! Hope she gets found soon
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October 30th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
You had problems. Babisodes could have just looked at each picture and done it — well maybe not at 3 or 4, but I’m always amazed what a 5 or 6 year old can actually do. But then I have a 30+ daughter that is similarly challenged. She hates origami.
Do you plan to collect all 5???????
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October 30th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
That is a lot of work on a grasshopper but it came out well. I know what you mean. When my girlfriend is at work and i’m by myself I get bored.
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October 30th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
You get an A+ from me for sticking with this until you succeeded. I probably would have given up almost immediately and found something else to do with Babisodes … just because. If you need to be ‘distracted’ … Consider yourself Boo-ed! Go check my Small Reflections blog for specifics unless you decide you’ve had enough Halloween already!
Hugs and blessings,
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October 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Whoa–what a nightmare. Ah…the things we do for those kids!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
oh my gosh !!!!!! that looked so hard- good job mom – but remember 3 year olds can have a short attention span and you can distract her if you see one of these again !
ha ha
cute post
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October 31st, 2008 at 12:33 am
I can’t believe that stupid bug took that much work! LOL
I am SO worried about Kathleen. =(
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October 31st, 2008 at 3:16 am
Do you have those Kinder Surprises there?
The toys inside the chocolate are marketed to 2-4 year olds. But take 2 adults and a bottle of glue (and a oh-dear-the-hammer-slipped-have-a-cookie) to assemble.
Stoopid things
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October 31st, 2008 at 4:01 am
Those instructions are totally insane! Craziness.
On another note, I don’t know Kathleen, but oh my gosh, how scary for her family, and I hope that she is OK. So scary. So very scary.
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October 31st, 2008 at 4:28 am
Funny story, and then you sucked me in and made my cry.
I just went to Kathleen’s site and am still choking…praying.
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October 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Kids, gotta love ‘em. Sounds like you need to keep daddy home.
So sad about Kathleen. I hope she is found soon.
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October 31st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I’ve so been there! I am also just founding out from my two year old son that I’m crappy at Lego ship building as well. *sigh*
Strange about Kathleen. I hope she is okay as well…
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November 1st, 2008 at 1:05 am
Holy Crap. I would have ripped that thing in the first 30 seconds of trying to put it together.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm