The Working Mom

Things are a wee bit rocky at the moment. Got a series of not so great news and am kinda bummed out right now. We were watching TV and saw one of those “Ally.com” ads. Those are so awesome. Just the laugh I was needing. Have you seen these? The kids in them are AWESOME. I love their expression. We were wondering if they thought it was real – some of their expressions look so awesome, it’s almost hard to believe they’re that good at acting . But at the same time, if I pulled one of these stunts in my house, we wouldn’t get confused, frustrated expressions, we’d get an all-out tantrum. In fact, I’m pretty sure if it were my kids in the commercial, it would have an ending with that guy getting a black eye. LOL!

If you’re looking for some Easter themed fun for your iPhone, there’s a very cute app on the store right now that can fit that bill. Easter Village has two activities – catching rabbits, and art. When you catch a rabbit, you collect a carrot. Catch 10,000 carrots and you’ll get a real (not virtual!) handmade Easter card. They’re only giving out ten of these, so you’ll have to start catching rabbits quickly! Or if you’d like to create your own (virtual) card, you’ll be able to create and send that right from the app to your friends and family via email, facebook or twitter. I really like the graphics in the app, all created with clay, paper, wood and paint.

Easter Village is created by Ru-ka-mi and published by Broken Thumbs Apps. Here is a video about the app.

Easter Village: $0.99*

*Price at time of this writing.

The other morning, before dropping Zach off at daycare, he asked me “what squirrels were made of.”

The things is – he sometimes asks me questions like this when he already has an answer in his head. When I mentioned Zach’s question to my Facebook friends, my friend Jamie replied that when she asked her son the same question to see what he would say, he said “Skin and Fur” – but I know that wasn’t what was in Zach’s mind. I explained it was as if he expecting me to say that squirrels were made of chicken or something…

To which Jamie gave me this reply:

Speaking of chicken, Alex was eating a chicken nugget the other day and asked me what chicken nuggets were made of. I told him chicken of course and I guess it was the first time he ever realized he was eating an animal, his eyes got huge and said, “a bock bagock chicken?” “Yep” “The kind with feathers?” “Yep” “So there’s a chicken in my belly?”…. at which point the conversation got really weird and uncomfortable trying to explain how it’s ok to eat animals that are raised for food, but not ok to bite his brother…

ROFL!!! I’m still cracking up over that.

Later that night, I asked Zach to tell me what he thought squirrels were made of. His answer? “nuts“

I guess you are what you eat…

I almost didn’t even see him there. Almost. Of course, none of the other stuffed animals on her bed had the same guilty look.

Sam just sent me the link to this video: Do you want to date my avatar?

I don’t know, it’s been a long time since I played World of Warcraft – but I played a frumpy dwarf with pigtails. I’m pretty sure no one wanted to date her. LOL!