Long Live Icky Poo

Early last week Sam got a birthday present in the mail from the Cole family. This was one of the many occasions that I wished I would have had my camera. (It was in Japan.) He got something called Icky Poo, which both the boys have been obsessed with! They are these two long sticky rubbery, stretchy rope things, that you can play games with. They stick to stuff, and it just feels funny to hold. When Sam and I played a game with them for the first time, he was laughing so hard that he had to get up and run to the bathroom before he wet his pants! We had cut out squares of paper and put them on the ground. The object of the game was to steal the other person's papers by whipping your icky poo at the paper. Sometimes a whole bunch of papers would stick to it at once! We went back and forth stealing papers from each other. Nobody really wins, the game can just go on and on. Very quicky we realized that in this house our icky poo's don't stay sticky very long - too much dirt and dog hair. The amazing thing about the icky poo (I just like to say it. Come on...say it with me.... all together now...outloud, "ICKY POO!!!!") Anyway, the amazing thing about the icky poo is that when it loses its stickiness, you just wash it off with warm soapy water, let it air dry, (don't take a linty or paper towel to it!) then you're back in business again! It's been great entertainment, despite the fact that one icky poo has developed an unexplainable and undoable knot and another was peeled off our popcorn ceiling where I'm convinced it would have stayed on its own forever.

Long Live Icky-Poo!

Thanks for the great presents Cole Family! We've also enjoyed the soccer disc. It's great having a nephew who works in a toy store!