Annoying toys.

My sister sent the girls a present the other day. There were three things in it. One russian stacking doll thing that looked like a cat that Miranda went ape shit for and two disc shooters (gun like objects that shoot circular objects). Michael and I were kinda like, "Huh?" those seem like an odd gift. Like nothing Amy has ever gifted before. We tried to think of why she got these. Short on time? Ordered the wrong thing? Picked something at random from the catalog? Got them free with the cat stacker toy? We ended up thinking that Oliver picked them out because it seemed like a toy that a 7 year old would like.

So I asked her if we were right. No, she said. She picked them. And without cutting and pasting the whole email which contained some Onion quotes, she basically said she didn't want to be "that" mom that got wooden educational toys and she picked these because they seemed annoying and completely devoid of any educational component.

Nice.