The Kings of Huntsville

So we bought the Little Superstar stage after playing with Lucky’s at his first birthday party. But ours seems… broken. It wasn’t broken enough for us to notice early on, so we no longer have the box. But when it plays the songs, it plays shortened versions of the songs… not the full song. Which is kind of disappointing to me because it came with cards with the words, but the full song doesn’t play. Also, in the instrumental mode, the microphone is supposed to make it play music when you shake it. This feature also appears not to work. Since we don’t have the box any longer, we can’t take it back. I did some searching online, but found no reports of similar problems. Has anyone else experienced this? Best I could tell there is not a demo mode on the thing, though that is what it seems like it is in to me. But if one does not exist…

Any ideas???

Update:
From Misty’s comment, we looked a little closer, and sure enough, there was a little slot that looked like there might be something buried down in it. So with a little surgery, we fixed the problem! Now… if only the instructions had mentioned such a thing, we might have thought to check that to begin with. But Misty totally wins with that suggestion!

offa my head please!

From this:

From May 2008

To this:




And I’m sure I could have done many more vases, if I’d wanted to! There are more rose pictures in the album.

So I got dozens of roses for Mother’s Day! I just had to cut them myself.
ETA - I got lots of other nice things too… that I didn’t have to work for myself. Just thought I’d point that out. I have do have a great hubby and daughter.

So how might we have spent today, Phoebe’s first celebration of Mother’s Day?

For one, we got her dressed in her new play outfit that I picked up yesterday.

Then she read the newspaper.

She claimed the dog.

And then we used the new tripod to get a family picture.

It’s been a good day around here. Hope everyone else out there is having a good time.

From May 2008

From the Daycare, to me. I love it, obviously!

What we gave our mothers.

And a neat photography mistake. I like that it focused on my reflection instead of the picture. It turned out neat I thought!