Adventures in Munchkinland

Last night, Matthew and I enjoyed a new experience with the kids. Perhaps some of you have heard of it; I certainly never had. Sarah sent the kids home on Thursday with a box of Squishy Baff, which is a product that is supposed to turn your bath water into slime. Thomas and Lara's mommy doesn't have a bathtub at their house, so the new fun thing that she bought got to come to our house to try it out. I'm here to put in my product review. It might be important in case anybody's kids try to convince them to get it for them.

Ah, Thomas. The things you get excited about continue to amaze and confuse me. Luckily I did not have to be in charge of giving you a bath.

I was pretty adamantly opposed to Squishy Baff in the first place because it requires kids to say "Bath" with a speech impediment! What's that all about anyway! Secondly, come to find out it's As Seen On TV. Probably it wasn't first on your list of reasons to limit the kids' TV screen time per day, but now you should move it a few points higher. Those TV ads have some of the weirdest stuff on it, including but not limited to Pillow Pets, Squishy Baff, Moon Boots, and anything else that isn't worth buying. Hah.

So here's what ya do: fill the bathtub with water, and pour in the squishy bath powder. Stir it around for 10 minutes, and the water turns into the grossest, weirdest consistency green stuff. I wouldn't really even call it goo because it doesn't just thicken the water, it makes it clumpy and chunky. It's more like crushed up gelatin than goo. Bath time in general was about 50 times more complicated because Matt didn't want Thomas' hair to get that gunk in it because...ew...so he had to go infant-style and pour water on his head with a cup to wash it. Matthew ended up rinsing him off AFTER he had a bath...which, really, when ya look at the big picture, is make the whole bath rather redundant, donchya think?

Thomas was having a hey day, though. He picked up the bath goo and slung it all over the tile to watch it fall slowly back into the bathtub. Lara, however, was much less amused. She did NOT want to take a green goo bath (good girl), so she bathed in the other bathtub while Daddy tried to dissolve Thomas' water. On the box, it says the goo will dissolve back to water in 5-10 minutes. We waited about an hour before it was really liquidy enough to go down the drain. Good thing there are two bathtubs, or Lara would have been up until 10:00 just waiting to get in the tub!

Moral of the story: Well, there are a few.

1. Don't use Squishy Baff again.
2. Don't teach your children to have a speech impediment.
3. Don't watch so much TV.
4. Don't buy things off the TV when you do watch it.
5. If the kids were given a cool new toy but aren't able to use it in one house, make up a reason why they can't use it in your house...because there may be a really good reason why they couldn't use it in the first house!

https://www.trysquishybaff.com/ Here's the website for Squishy Baff if anyone wants to have a go! Only $20 plus $10 shipping and handling! Great huh?

See Y'all,
TFMM