Child Proof Challenged Parent Here!

I would like to take this moment to thank Fisher Price for having a moment of pity of those of us parents who get so frustrated with the child proof packaging that we often need to put the toy and half mangled package aside for a cooling off period before beng able to give the toy to our child(ren).  I can only hope this is a continuing trend and not just a one time packaging lottery.

I put together the high chair and broke a nail doing so.  After having a tug of war with her over the tray while trying to get it on the chair, we officially had our first meal in the high chair... some of which ended up christening the new chair after being regurgitated.  Its supposed to be easy clean.  The jury is still out on that one.  The cushion was easy enough to wipe off, but I'm really not looking foward to having to detach the cushion to clean underneath where her mess went through the hole for the crotch piece.  I've been watching last seasons Project Runway and for some reason the word crotch always comes up and it tends to make me giggle.

In an effort to avoid the whale toy packaging I unboxed her other toy she got this past weekend  and got it together.  I have a feeling I'm going to be going through a lot of AA batteries here in the near future.  She loves it.  Its one of those things she can sit in front of and push buttons or stand behind it and push.  I'm so glad these toys come with a low volume setting.  When I popped the batteries on it was on the high setting.  It was loud... like I don't know how they can say its safe for your child to sit infront of it loud.

After this I decided to stop procrastinating (my favorite hobby btw) and deal with this well packed whale bath toy.  I opened up the bottom panel and was pleasantly surprised to see that instead of the wire twisties from hell, there were these paper cords that could be easily unwraped from the cardboard to free the toy.  They actually kinda remind me of the not-stick on the Saftey Suckers I used to get from the Radio Shack as a kid... back before Radio Shack was so commercial... but that's for later.

On a more positive note, my sleepless nights of the last week have been rewarded!  Someone is finally actually cutting her first tooth.  It is visibly clear as its breaking through the gums (bottom on her right side if anyone cares). I'm going to attempt to torture her with the camera later today and maybe if you're lucky I'll figure out how to post pics on this thing as has already been requested.