At least if he's on a Zebco kids' fishing combo. Turns out they used lead paint on the ones sold from some time in 2001 until "March 2005"... um, wasn't lead paint determined to be dangerous... and not a good choice for children's products... oh, a looooong time ago? Huh. I wonder who forgot to tell the guys who got the contract for that job? Anyway, Zebco is voluntarily recalling the poles and we've joined in our first child-related recall. Not bad, considering we're on child number four in seven years, really.
It was 100'F today. I haven't had the fortitude to peek at the humidity. Let's just say, we stayed in. The boys made cards. We played with the pipes and legos. We ate chili dogs and watched a movie together. I napped on the couch with a warm, snuggly Smidge - and then Zorak napped on the floor with a warm, snuggly John (aka - the 50 pound electric blanket). It was just nice.
I have to confess, we feel like we're getting away with something here. We get so much out of watching the boys conspire to save the world, from holding those tiny (and growing) hands to say grace before a meal, from sharing jokes all around between bites, and hearing the boys ask to hear about this-or-that: how does this work, what is that for, is there such a thing as... Sitting cross-legged on the floor, piles of children everywhere, eating popcorn and taking turns telling or reading stories... Zorak and I look at one another and giggle like teenagers with inside jokes. How did we get so lucky? Not all days are full-to-the-brim with things like that, but if we take the time to look, we see that every day has at least one of those things. Most days have more than one. Then days like today are just one after another until we want to go roll in the grass like happy dogs, with that full-body wiggle that denotes utter happiness.
Kiss those babies!
~Dy
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Awww...that is just so nice. And you're right, far too often, we just don't take the time to look. Thanks for brightening my day.
IT was 100f here yesterday too. We went out to try to look at rentals but the poor kids in the back were so red and flustered and we were pretty bad up front (the windows don't roll up in the van - lol), we gave up after just 2. We snuggled and had a lazy day in the a/c after that too. Those are the best days.
Made in America products can't have lead in the paint. Made in anywhere else there can be lead in the paint *as long as the use of the product does not have the user purposefully touch it with their mouth.*
This is why many pretty, pretty glazed mugs and painted cups have lead in the paint (usually in the decorative portion of the glaze, not the undercoat). Now. Today. "As long as the paint is two inches below the rim of the cup . . ."
This reminds me of my favorite ZooDad/Elf Dad story. My dad used to do some soldering with lead solder. When we back down here with the beginning of our clan, ZooDad wanted to explain the importance of not using lead solder with the kids around. He was showing my dad how the lead test kits works. He popped the little glass part to mix the chemicals and then rubbed in on our mini blinds and said, "If there was lead present, this tip would turn red." My dad pointed out that the tip was red.
That's how we found out we had lead mini-blinds.
I understand fully your "heap of boys" feeling. We have that 'moment' here too. It's kind of overwhelming.
Oh, AK, you're kidding? Well, no, you're not kidding. But I have a herd of cup-lickers, here, so that news is disturbing, to say the least.
Sheila, AHHH- I'm glad you found out about it. I don't mind lead paint as long as I know where it's gonna be. We run into that a lot w/ houses - if they're old, there's going to be lead in there somewhere: paint, pipes, trim. I just want to know about it! lol.
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