Ch-ch-ch-Chia!

I am making a new rule. Pay attention grandparents! In the future when you purchase items such as this for The Boy...please plan to do them with him! I finally broke down and opened up the Chia Scooby the other day after much begging and whining. The first problem was that there would be a 24 hour delay in the process. You have to soak a chia over night in water before spreading the seeds so that the clay can retain water. That was when the arguing began. Try telling a 3 year old he has to wait 24 hours for something and see what happens! It wasn't pretty.

After distracting The Boy by telling him to go call his Oma (snicker) I was able to stick Scoob's head in a pan and push him to the back of the cabinet. The next day we went down to see of Scooby was thoroughly saturated and ready for his new do. This is the part where I decided a new rule was necessary. Who would think that one little packet of seeds would scatter so completely throughout the kitchen! They were every where. Every where but on Scooby's head that is. I decided that this wasn't working so I read the directions. Yeah, I should have read them first but I didn't think that spreading seeds on a clay head was rocket science. Turns out you had to get the seeds wet first. Lovely. Now we not only had seeds scattered all over the kitchen but we had big globs of seeds all over us. Jayke got frustrated with the process because I wouldn't stop "helping" him and gave up leaving the job for me to finish.

All I can say is this sucker better have one huge fro by the end of two weeks because I put all of the seeds on then learned that there were enough for 3 plantings. Just then Grammy comes shuffling in to see what was going on. The Boy had retrieved the broom from the garage by now and was vigorously sweeping the seeds into every corner of the kitchen. I then had to go through a very detailed explanation of what we were doing. I am now completely over the Chia Scooby.

Next time The Boy gets a Chia anything in his stocking P'pa will be in charge of planting it with him. If that goes anything like the baking they did a few weeks ago it will be an even bigger mess!