The Trixie Update

13 responses so far ↓

• 1 Dave // Jul 13, 2004 at 7:53 am

  Ben,

  you far underestimate the power your wallet will have to make your daughter happy for years, and years, and years, and years to come… LOL!!!

• 2 benmac // Jul 13, 2004 at 8:13 am

  Oh, I know you’re right — what I meant is that she’s not going to be content to simply hold the wallet. Soon she’ll figure out what all those plastic cards and green paper is for.

• 3 Michelle // Jul 13, 2004 at 8:21 am

  You might add the TV remote to the poll. It’s a huge favorite of my nephew and my son — followed closely by the batteries that can be removed from the remote.

• 4 benmac // Jul 13, 2004 at 8:42 am

  I’ll have to make another poll to cover the non purse and pocket items. thanks-

• 5 Charlotte // Jul 13, 2004 at 8:55 am

  Glasses, keys, the remote, cell phone, pager - you name it….anything worth value, Jack’s all over it. He also likes to eat the grocery list and can do so in a matter of the time it takes to turn around and grab a gallon of milk.

• 6 Jaynee // Jul 13, 2004 at 10:09 am

  My daughter loves to grab my husband’s PDA or his cell phone. Funnily enough, she doesn’t grab my cellphone that much (maybe because I usually take mine away from her, whereas the hubby lets her slobber to her heart’s content all over his.

  Coincidentally, this is why MY cellphone works, and his doesn’t.

• 7 Jaynee // Jul 13, 2004 at 10:13 am

  Michelle - my husband and I “solved” that problem by giving our daughter a remote of her own that belonged to a stereo that broke a while back. No batteries, but she can go to town - slobbering, pushing buttons, throwing it across the room. She knows that’s HER remote, and she pretty leaves the others alone.

• 8 FrumDad // Jul 13, 2004 at 11:27 am

  I don’t know why I’m so invested in picking a poll item that “ranks.”

  I clicked glasses and when it came up fourth I was bummed.

  –FrumDad

• 9 joe // Jul 13, 2004 at 12:07 pm

  My twins love trying to pull my pager off its belt clip. Then I turn it to buzz so it will shake in their hands.

• 10 Shauna // Jul 13, 2004 at 12:09 pm

  Keir recently received the “Big Red Wiggles Car” from his aunt and after spending an hour teaching him how to properly get in and out of the plastic car, he seemed satisfied. THEN, he looks at me while sitting in the car, holds his hands up to the side and says “key?” So, I gave in and gave him some keys and then he got upset that there was no hole for them. Alas, there is a “fake” gas tank hole that will suffice right now until he figures out my ruse and we have to use a screwdriver to poke a hole near the steering wheel for his keys!

• 11 Rae // Jul 13, 2004 at 7:54 pm

  When my now 8 year old was around 1 or 2, she loved my lipstick. I lost many a colour, while she whizzed them up and down, and drew with them anywhere she could.

• 12 Michelle // Jul 13, 2004 at 9:28 pm

  Jaynee - Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, Clark didn’t fall for it. We tried a few weeks back offering one of several old remotes without the batteries, but he pushed the buttons a couple of times and then tossed it lunged for the one and only operable remote. I think the allure must be the fact that we’re always taking the “real” one away.

  I have, however, managed to trick him with an old calculator on occasion. Not as good as the remote, but a favorite toy nonetheless.

• 13 brooklyn mama // Jul 14, 2004 at 8:00 am

  My girl is obsessed with my wallet! It got to the point where she’d start to tantrum every time I’d try to pay for something. Now she knows that she can only play with it at home - and lord knows I let her! It’s one of the only things that keeps her quiet. I hope I don’t shove the wallet at her to appease her when she’s a teenager.

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