(Oy - my titles are getting really long!!)
(This is my offering for Works for Me Wednesday this week. Enjoy!)
On Tuesday, Daddy happened to be working from home, so as soon as Siu Jeun went down for his morning nap, I threw BBJ into the car and ran out to do some baby-free erranding with the Big Girl. One of our stops took us Trader Joe's, as they have the only inexpensive Tofu in town. ($1.50, as opposed to $3 at our "normal" grocery store.) BBJ's favorite, part of course, is the balloon that the checker usually offers her on the way out. The balloon presents a quandary, though. On the one hand - balloon! Yea! On the other hand...there is the distinct possibility that the balloon will slip from her grasp and float away. Forever.
On Tuesday, Daddy happened to be working from home, so as soon as Siu Jeun went down for his morning nap, I threw BBJ into the car and ran out to do some baby-free erranding with the Big Girl. One of our stops took us Trader Joe's, as they have the only inexpensive Tofu in town. ($1.50, as opposed to $3 at our "normal" grocery store.) BBJ's favorite, part of course, is the balloon that the checker usually offers her on the way out. The balloon presents a quandary, though. On the one hand - balloon! Yea! On the other hand...there is the distinct possibility that the balloon will slip from her grasp and float away. Forever.
Chilling.
Seeing as that's the case, she wouldn't agree to touch the balloon until we were home, and it was firmly tied to a chair.
(You know where this is going, right?)
After a few minutes of happily bopping the balloon, firmly tied to the chair, we suddenly hear a shriek. It was desperate, it was loud...and did I mention it was desperate? It was the sound of a girl who had just lost her balloon.
She had bopped the balloon, buffetted the balloon...and bonked it right out of its ribbon. We found it floating somewhere up near the skylights...at least 20 feet up.
We thought fast, and came up with a great solution: Tape on a stick!
A really, really, really, really, really long stick. (We bought it when we lived in our first house, and I wanted to clean the windows above the front door...also 20 feet off the floor.)
Our hero!
(Lo Gung and had a small, heated discussion over who got to be the Hero and get the balloon down. He won.)
(To spell it out: Get a looooooooooong stick, take a circle of packing tape, and stick it on the end. Poke the sticky end up to the balloon, and watch the grins pour in!)
That Works for Me!
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LOL! That happened to us when we were at my in-laws' house this summer. The balloon that someone gave to Z flew to the skylights over the stairs... Luckily for us, we thought to tie a really long string to the balloon so it wasn't that hard to reach for it when it floated away.
ReplyDeleteNow that is a clever solution.
ReplyDeleteAnd again, no Trader Joe's for me. I really do live in a sad place.
Nice. Hero Lo Gung! (Which Power Puff girl is he??? :)
ReplyDelete@ Myrnie - I am wearing green. So, I would be Buttercup!! HAHA.
ReplyDeleteHeh nifty :D
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