This Is Not A Review Blog...

...but if it were I would review the fuzz out of these things!  Bilibos!  Are you familiar with the entertainment sensation that is the Bilibo?  My mother-in-law strolled in the other day carrying one for each of the girls (along with fabulous birthday gifts for me!  As if free babysitting pretty much whenever I want weren't enough!) 

If there were an Awesome Toy zine, Bilibos would be the centerfold.  They have a unique, cute look and are functional in that they are FUN.  The idea is they're supposed to encourage imaginative play because there's no one, specific way to use them.  The little tag on it said it could be used in the water as a floating device or as a sled in the winter.  We haven't got that far yet, but here is what I'm talking about:

The girls, lounging.



Molly, pretending to be a turtle.

 So what else have we done with these things?

• Put them on our heads to be ghosts (I thought we looked like stingrays, but M insisted on the less imaginative ghost).
• We'll be passing out Halloween candy from the big orange Bilibo.
• Had a spinning contest to see who could get theirs to spin longest (I smoked M!)
• My girlfriend who is 9 months pregnant made a baby bump helmet type thing with one.
• I gave A rides around the living room until she went from gleeful giggles to a desperate, "I'm going to puke" look. (I was incorporating a lot of spinning)
• Was prepared to use as a barf bucket.

I don't think they sell Bilibos, but it look like something Ikea would carry, so here's a funny commercial for you from I (kea).

Here's To 7 More Years

It's my anniversary! Well, our anniversary I guess. Jim and I have been married 7 whole years. We celebrated by eating too much food and then going to our friends' for a bonfire, where we defied our guts' protests by eating and drinking even more. Nothing says "I love you" like S'mores and wine, right? It was fab.
All this anniversariness got me thinking about what commercial couples most exemplify my own marriage. Here's what I came up with:

Jim and I are all about teamwork and keeping each other fired up:


We also think we're pretty badfanny:


Lucky for him, Jim is not one to check out the ladies (blatantly at least). But we do keep each other in line: