One of Noah's birthday gifts came in a box full of packing peanuts. Not the new dissolveable and smooshable ones. The brittle "break into a thousand little statically charged pieces" ones. The boys started off climbing into the large box and had the time of their lives tossing them up in the air and onto the floor everywhere. We laughed with them and completely enjoyed watching them have so much fun. That's what you call newbie parents, right there.
(They were flapping the edges of the box to send packing peanuts flying all over the room)
Once they were out of the box, the boys continued to toss them around and run through them.
Then we attempted to clean them up. We shoveled up as many as we could in a dust pan and a sand shovel. We got most of the big pieces. I figured I could just vacuum the rest of them up. Easy, right? Well not so if you have a baggless vacuum because the pieces stick to the filter making suction disappear and when you go to empty the canister the little statically charged pieces find a new home all over you and the floor around the garbage can. So I spent the rest of the night on my hands and knees with tape and fingers picking up all the bigger of the little pieces.
That's not happening again. Glad we got some video of them having so much fun. So they can relive it by watching it.
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