Sunday, March 18, 2007
now that i'm sure i got your attention over there in Arizona....

today we picked up a box of Cheerios. the name-brand kind, not the store-brand, or the natural brand (although Cheerios is sold in Whole Foods, so "it's got to be good"). because when it comes to Cheerios...the name brand is the real deal. i just can't eat, or make my kids eat, a different "version." it's like reading cliff's notes for a shakespeare play. or worse...baking with sucralose.

so we picked up a box of Cheerios because they are adam's favorite finger food these days. they wrap up a meal well for him...he likes to delicately balance a cheerio that is stuck to the end of his saliva-ed index finger, and pinch it closed with this thumb and s-l-o-w-l-y bring it to his mouth. it's quite a sight - and very different than sawyer-at-9-months who took a fist of cheerios and jammed them into his mouth like cookie monster (complete with cheerio crumbs flying everywhere).

the boys (and i!) were excited to see eric carle's "very hungry caterpiller" gracing the front of this particular Cheerios box (sawyer kept saying, "looks like MY book!"). eric carle is donating 100,000 copies of his book The Tiny Seed to the state that answers (and votes for!) the most correct children's book trivia questions.

so...only those of you who live in MY STATE...go to www.firstbook.org/carle and have fun answering some children's book trivia (i didn't get that many correct, but i did find new books to add to the boys' wishlist) and vote for our state to be the recipiants of his book. we already own this book, and it's actually a favorite of rowan's. and the artwork doesn't disappoint (especially if you're a fan of carle's illustrations).

while you're online, hop on over to carle's other great cause at www.picturebookart.org. there's some fun artwork to look at, booklists, and activities.

and no, eric carle or General Mills is in no way paying me for this post. i could only be so lucky.


Monday, March 19, 2007 1:57:01 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Monday, March 19, 2007 11:55:30 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
To show you how good I am at following directions, I took the test and voted for Florida. To show you how good I am at multiple choice tests, I got eight out of ten answers correct even though there was only one I should have known. No wonder I liked, rather than feared, standardized tests as a student. Most of the books I've never heard of, let alone read, and I have extensive children's book experience.
Monday, March 19, 2007 1:40:37 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
LOL! That was fun! I guess I need to have kids, it only took my 68 questions to get 50 correct answers - yes I am bored at work today!
Monday, March 19, 2007 2:32:17 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
I did it...and I voted for books for what I WANT my homestate to be soon. :-)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:10:34 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
but sursum - florida is already in the top 5!!!!! don't you want to help out the state in which you have friends and family? :)

wow, brent...i can only sit down and do 10 questions at a time!

i'm don't know a lot of the books they are using in the quiz either. mainly the eric carle ones. :)
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