Little Blue Bunny Update: Part 2. Kitchen hijinks!

LBB was down but not out. Maybe getting the LOLs to organize to protest failed but how about asking for help in a baking escapade.

(At this point, D twirled around and said, “He always makes a mess of the kitchen when we’re gone.” True.)

His plan was to make a fake apple pie (click for actual recipe) using round snack crackers.

He got about 12 of the dolls to climb the stairs. They had to climb on each other’s shoulders and then pull up the ones left behind.

Luckily, toys don’t get tired so soon a pile of them gathered in the kitchen.  They dragged the broom over to the counter then shinnied up the broom handle. On the counter they made a pyramid so they could reach the cupboard. They handed down the ingredients as LBB shouted them out.

“Crackers, cinnamon, flours, sugar!” He sounded like a boss!

Coconut Cutie was reading the labels and when she found a box marked with a big S, she handed it down.

The toys got to work making a pie crust. Stuffy Cam videos do NOT transfer to people computers very well but watching them try to roll out the crust was hilarious. They finally dumped the crust into the pan and jumped on it to spread it out.

LBB mixed the filling ingredients and poured them over the cracker pieces.
Then they put the pie on a dish towel, gathered the corners together, and lowered it to the oven shelf. Four of the dolls and Franklin slid the dish towel from under the pie pan.
Then they scurried out of the oven. The broom handle helped them close the oven door.

LBB hopped on the controls and 30 minutes later the pie was done.

When it was cool, they put it on the floor and everyone gathered around. Fancy got the first taste. It smelled all cinnamon -y and yummy.



Fancy took a bite. And...

"YUCK!. Bleach!"

LBB hopped up and took a taste. He spit it right out.

He scrambled up the broomstick to the counter where he looked at all the ingredients.

"Where’s the sugar?" He squeaked.  "Why is this empty box of salt here?"

The dolls all laughed at his funny face. 

Coconut Cutie’s mouth looked like an “O”. “I thought it was sugar. It looks like sugar.”

Little Blue Bunny fell over in disappointment.

He and Franklin spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the kitchen before Daddy got home. The dolls slid down the stairs back to the playroom to avoid any more work.

Little Blue Bunny wiped his forehead with his ears. "I learned a good lesson." he sighed. "Always check your ingredients."

Franklin nodded. They sat on the bottom step by the front door and just thought.

“Do you have any other ideas for fun?” Franklin asked. He knew LBB would come up with something amazing.

“My next idea is the best one yet!” Little Blue Bunny gave an excited hop.

They heard a car pull into the driveway.

“Quick!” The bunnies hopped up the stairs to D’s bedroom just as Daddy came in through the basement door...

Little Blue Bunny Update, Part 1.

LBB update


D went to Chile to visit her mother’s huge extended family for a week. She is home now. She demanded to know what Little Blue Bunny did while she was gone.

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “He was at your house most of the time because I was sick.”

D looked at me and rolled her eyes. “Make it up, Nana," she told me.


So, here is what my hidden Stuffy Cams revealed.

Little Blue Bunny tried hard to “organize” the LOL(tm) dolls. His explanation is that, “D will like having her dolls all lined up, I know.”

 But Franklin and LBB were caught on Stuffy Cam arguing about making troops out of the dolls.

“She has a lot of dolls,” LBB told Franklin. "They could get a lot of stuff done. We could march on the living room and demand more rights for toys.”

Franklin just sighed as he listened. When LBB stopped talking, Franklin pointed out that toys have it pretty easy.

“We don’t have to work. We are never hungry. What do we really need, Little Blue?” Franklin tried to be reasonable.

“We need POWER!” LBB yelled. “We never get to do anything on our own.”

“Um, what about right now?” Franklin pointed out.

“I want more power than just doing things when people are not around.”

LBB got a lot of dolls to come hear his plans. They were not impressed by his power speech.

“He just wants US to do the work of marching and chanting.” Rocker shouted.

“Yes,” Fancy nodded. “What’s in it for us?”


“I’ll show you what’s in it for you.” Little Blue Bunny said sweetly. “Just follow me.”

Fancy went with LBB into the laundry room. LBB put a handkerchief over Fancy's head and tied her up.

“Mwahahaha!” Little Blue Bunny shouted as he ran back into the playroom. “If you ever want to see Fancy again, you will do as I say.”

The dolls just laughed.

“It’s not funny.” LBB said. “I kidnapped her.” …

Fancy walked out from behind him.

“Bunnies tie really bad knots.” she said with a smirk.

Little Blue Bunny was down but not out. He had another plan...

Little Blue Bunny in the New Year

We take Dee to her music lessons these days.  She still wants me to sit in the back with her while Gramps drives.  Good thing, too.  I mean sitting in back...

Dee takes piano lessons at the store that Daddy taught at for years.  This is NOT Dee.

ANYWAY, we have a new technology, Dee, LBB, his family and I.  It is the palm phone.  We can call and message people in our network on the palms of our hands.  We have visual contact, too.  But more exciting than all this, we can reach through the "palmscreen" and touch what we see. We call that Touchtime!

Here is how these communications work.  Dee calls LBB - or vice versa - and they turn on visuals.   Then, Dee says, "What's that on the carpet?" or "What is that big shape behind you?"

Then, I have to make up a story about something on the carpet or what the shape is.

Touchtime was created when I assured Dee that the dragon that looked like it was going to eat Little Blue Bunny was just a cardboard cutout. She punched my palm and - zoop!- she was able to reach into our dining room and touch the dragon's scales. Touchtime!

These conversations take the entire 15 to 20 minute ride to the music store. Yesterday's call was an awesome exercise in imagination and adventure.

Here's Lila and the phone she got for Toy Christmas.  Keep reading.

When we called LBB, we were surprised that the number that came up was his big sister's phone.  Little Blue Bunny explained that Lila lost phone privileges when:
1. She didn't notice that Snow, their little bunny sister, took the new twins, Chester and Pinella, out of their crib.
2.  Snow dragged the twins around the house on a blanket.
3.  Snow knocked down their mother's easel, almost hitting Chester.

So cute! Snow (in the middle) with Chester (left) and Pinella (right).

Needless to say, when Nutsa (Mom) heard the easel crash, she ran in to find Lila on the phone.  The phone was confiscated.

Lila had a problem.  How could she let people know that she lost phone privileges and wasn't just ignoring them?

Enter LBB.  Lila offered LBB money to answer her phone.

AND as soon as LBB got his sister's phone, he diverted all calls from HIS phone to HER phone.

Well, that was quite a story but when we went to visuals we could not believe what we imagined we saw.

This is an earlier experiment with makeup.  We didn't get photos this time.

LBB's face was covered with brown stuff and his ears were rolled up so they looked like little nubs on his head.

"What if one of Lila's friends wants to Facetime?" LBB asked.

"What if?"  I told him.  "You are not supposed to  BE Lila.  You are just letting her friends know she can't use her phone."

"Oh", LBB seemed a bit upset. "I didn't think of that."

"Nana!" Dee pointed at my palm.  "What's that stuff on the table?"

"Well?"  We waited for LBB to explain.

His explanation was in-cred-i-ble.  You see...the makeup he used did not stay on his face.  So he decided to make slime.  Yep. Slime.  He tried a bunch of colors, too.  Pink, orange, green - GREEN? -

"Making slime is so much fun!"  Little Blue Bunny laughed.

We told him to clean himself up.  So he scampered off to the powder room.

At this point, Dee used HER palm phone to call Nutsa and Nutsa - who was busy with the babies - had to come into the kitchen to find that LBB spilled slime EVERYWHERE.  There were tiny slimey footprints on the floor into the dining room - ON THE RUG.  Slime poured down the sides of the counter onto the cabinets.  Dee had a hard time coming up with just the right word.  Not dripping, not pouring, ROARING - like a waterfall.

Nutsa was HORRIFIED. LBB had used up all my brand new clear school glue.

By this time, we reached the music store.

When we called LBB back after Dee's lesson - which went very well, by the way  - that's when we saw the slime cascading over the sides of the counter. (Now, why didn't we think of that word yesterday?) LBB promised that he would buy me more glue.  Nutsa took away the money his sister paid him for answering her phone.

"You are her brother."  Nutsa scolded.  "You should do things like that as a favor.  I am ashamed of you for taking money."

So, here is the breakdown of consequences:
A. Nutsa was NOT upset with Lila or LBB for letting LBB answer Lila's phone.  Nutsa understands that communications are very important to teens and it is only polite to let people know why you are not answering their texts.

B. Nutsa WAS angry that money changed hands.  Family should help family.  Also, if Lila had asked her, Nutsa would have put an automatic reply on Lila's phone.

C. Nutsa WAS FURIOUS with Little Blue Bunny's make-up/slime escapade.  She promised that everything would be spic and span when I got home.

D. Nutsa WAS very angry with Lila fro neglecting her Big Sisterly babysitting duties.  Lila might not get her phone back for awhile.

E. Snow got time out.  But she's just a preschooler and very excited not to be the youngest anymore, so, her Mom went easy on her.

The trip from Dee's house to our house only takes about 10 minutes.  Believe it or not, our house looked just fine when we got home.  AND somehow or other, LBB managed to replace my clear school glue, too.

This post reminds me that I haven't told you all the fun stuff that happened this Fall - stuff like..
1. Nutsa's gender reveal party when we found out she was having TWINS!!!
2.  Our making the twins out of pink, yellow and blue pompoms and scraps of fake fur.  They are so cute.
3. The delivery!
4.  Little Blue Bunny's very close brush with matrimony to a LEOPARD.

It was THAT close.

Fodder for another post or two or three.

PS:  I want to assure you that I do NOT come up with ideas like "gender reveal parties" and "matrimony".  All those ideas come from Dee's amazing imagination.

LBB Reviews The Wizards of Once

Hi!  Little Blue Bunny here!

I'm not much of a reader.  Turning pages is not so easy when you are only 4 inches tall.  But, wow!
That kid, Xar, is AWESOME!!  He is totally my favorite kind of hero.  Who needs to think before acting?  I mean, that's so over-rated.  Xar just jumps right in.

Like me, he is in trouble ALL THE TIME. So, if I met him, I think we would hit it off.  Also, a lot of his friends are little sprites and they are small.  I am small. See?  We have so much in common.

Oh, wait.  The book is The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell.  Nana says I have to put that in.  Blah.

This crow is a big know-it-all!

So, anyway, Xar's dad is this awesomely powerful wizard and the wizards and magical people live on ONE side of the Badlands forest-y area.  But Xar doesn't have any magic yet and he's tired of waiting.

So, anyway, he goes into the foresty area to try and capture a WITCH - whoa!  This dude isn't afraid of anything - probably because he doesn't waste time thinking about conchy?  consy kenc - you know, what MIGHT happen if you do something.  NANA!  Help me out here.

Nana:  Consequences.

Those.  Yeah.  Well, Xar has an older brother.  Me, too.  Looter makes my older brother look like an old softie - which he is - which is fine - because Looter - BLEECCHH!  Mean and bossy!

Oh, back to the book.

SO, ANYWAY!  Xar meets up with this Warrior girl, Wish - and her softy bodyguard, Bodkins.  I forget why they were in the woods but they shouldn't have been there either.  Warriors HATE, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate times a lot, any kind of magic.  But Wish has "borrowed" the Queen's Witch killing sword which is magic and iron and that never happens  - magic and iron mixing, I mean - and Xar takes the sword and something really scary happens and then Xar sort of kidnaps Wish and Bodkin but the Warriors kidnap Xar's giant friend.... 

(Deep breath).  And there are explosions - a bunch of explosions - and trickiness and meanness and some bravery and courage, too.

I was a little worried that Xar would become boring and goody-goody.  YAY!!!! He didn't.

Read the book.  The pictures are all scratchy and awesome, too.  I will read another book about Xar and Wish - because that girl has SKILLS! - when it comes out.

All Little Blue Bunny - All the Time

This post was written on Tuesday, January 16, 2018.

 Early dismissal meant more time for Little Blue Bunny to get in trouble.  That guy!

First there was the bread pie crust experiment.  D and I actually did that but LBB tried to stick his nose in the filling - pumpkin butter.  (It needed a little something.  Like maybe real pie crust.)

We took the crust off a slice of bread and rolled the slice out flat.  Then we lined a small custard cup with the flattened bread.  We added egg and milk mixture to the already sweetened and seasoned pumpkin butter and stuck it in the oven.

While it baked, we washed the dishes and here's where Little Blue Bunny ended up.

He needed a bath.

Then, Nana reminded Dulci of the time Little Blue Bunny thought putting an addition on the house would be nice since his family lives on a window sill.  BUT after dragging the scrap lumber, the hammer, the nails and the, YIKES! saw from the garage, his Mom called him because it was dark.

Well, in the morning, the paper guy thought he was supposed to deliver a paper to the apartment - no one lives there - just us - and he tripped over all that junk and ripped his new designer jeans on the saw!!!  I had to pay him a lot of money.  (THIS IS A FICTIONAL STORY.)  D wanted to know if it was really true and when I told her it was just a story she got into the spirit of things by insisting that it happened (wink wink) the night she slept over.

NEXT, D is perfecting her balloon blowing skills but she discovered not too long ago that those little foot pumps you get with air mattresses work GREAT! for blowing up long skinny balloon sculpture balloons.  We decorated three snakes and then D decided they had to EAT LITTLE BLUE BUNNY.  I did argue for clemency.  And she countered that he was just a toy and it was all pretend anyway.  So, he got gobbled up and put in a grave with the word RIP on it.  D did that.  I folded a piece of paper for LBB's grave and then she wrote "Rip!" on it.  "Because it's a grave", she told me.  Where does she get this stuff?  I mean is this what they teach in first grade these days?

Well, all right then.  You want the snakes to eat LBB.  Then he can be a ghost.  I grabbed some cheesecloth that I was going to discard anyway and made Little Blue Bunny into a ghost and then we ran around scaring each other for a while.   D turned into a ghost.  I turned into a ghost and Gramps got scared - a lot.

Next, she grabbed my apron strings and pretended I was a horse and she was on a sulky or wagon and off we went.  I got some active exercise today.  Little Blue Bunny sat on my head and told me where to go and D shouted "Go!" and "Stop!" Luckily, we have a house that has a circular traffic pattern.

I did not mention the Lincoln Log building episode where we acted out Chiles' Play's (see how I work that in everywhere) version of little Cabin the Woods.

What else did we do?  I mean we had almost 3 hours.

Oh, the pie!  I dropped it right side up into the drawer under the oven. Not on purpose. But the custard - made from the same recipe - was edible but not great.

They are calling for snow tonight.  When will I ever have time to do book reviews again?

 SNOW DAY on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018.  I can't remember what we did!

LBB...One More Time

(His name is Little Blue Bunny.  D says he is 8 years old now because she wants him to get a cell phone soon.)

It gets harder and harder to find trouble that Little Blue Bunny has NOT gotten in to.

Flooded the Squirrel family abode?  Done that!
Messed up his parent's closet?  Check!
Turned fairy princesses into flowers?  Duh! Of course!
Climbed the Eiffel tower?  At least twice.
Scaled a volcano?  Yep.
Kidnapped various toys with the help of various other toys? Ho hum.  It's been done.

He got trapped on an amusement park ride.
He joined the pirates.
He swung from a ceiling fan.

I think he bungled up Project Runway: Toy Edition at least once.
He ran away from home.
He ate too much cake and threw up.
He stepped on everyone's toes at the Ball.
He teases his sisters and his older brother.
He causes Mammy Mammoth to have conniptions almost weekly.

Poor Mammy!

His favorite escapade of all is climbing.

So, yesterday, Little Blue Bunny decided to climb the lamp connected to the lamp table.  The bottom of the lamp table is Little Blue Bunny's room and it's also where we store the board games.  The top of the table is Lila's room.  She's a teenager and likes to be near the phone.

D warned him not to do it.

"I know how to climb." He scoffed.  (He's a good scoffer.) Off he went, higher and higher.  He got to the bend in the lamp's arm and slid close to the base of the bulb.

D covered her mouth.  "No!" she breathed.  Then, she turned stern.  (Whoa, no one does stern like D!) "You will burn yourself, you silly bunny."

D reached over and took Little Blue Bunny and made him climb up the inside of the lamp shade - away from the bulb.

Just then!!  The front door opened and in walked Daddy to take D home.  Startled, Little Blue Bunny lost his grip, bounced off the bulb, and landed on top of Lila who never even noticed because she was texting someone on her domino phone.

Nana took care of the rascal.  D gathered her things and Daddy heard about her day and talked to Gramps.

But before she left, D took Nana aside and whispered what Little Blue Bunny should do the next time we play with him.

It's a good one!  Honestly, I can't wait.

Further Adventures - Little Blue Bunny

(His name is Little Blue Bunny.  D says he is six years old.)    

Yesterday, Nutty Romomlia, celebrated her fifth birthday.  Little Blue Bunny wasn't going to give her a present.  She is just his little sister, after all.

But Nana found something that he could give her so he wrapped it up in aluminum foil.

Everyone wore stickers on their tummies (except Cuttlefish.  She hardly has a tummy.).  Nutty Romomlia was so excited.  D made an oreo cake and almost didn't have enough (imaginary) oreos to complete it.  Then she wrecked the icing and had to do it over.  Such drama for a small person birthday!

See the invisible cake?  It's on the green plate.  YUM!

The presents were wonderful; a pinecone, a wiggily head turtle, a huge noise maker, a box of crayons(!!) and a picture of stars!  Nutty Romomlia loved all of them.

Nutty and her presents and someone blue.

Little Blue Bunny had to wash up afterwards and that made him mad.  It WAS his turn to wash the dishes but there were so many of them.  Boy, he splashed and crashed and rattled those dishes clean.  And, then.... and then.... (DUM, DUM, DUMMMMM)

He left the (pretend) water faucet running - ON PURPOSE.  (D insisted that LBB did it on purpose.  The game had changed to Little-Blue-Bunny-Gets-In-Trouble-One-Last-Time, except even D realizes that it is never a "last" time.)

The (invisible) water overflowed the sink and soaked the floor and D slipped and slid and fell and couldn't get up.

Little Blue Bunny didn't even know about it.  He was off somewhere playing with his friends.

Nana had to help poor D who was now (pretend) cold and wet and sad and D had to huddle under a blanket while Nana made sure she was warm.

What a shock!  Nana called the water removal pros with their suctioning device and Little Blue Bunny got sucked up into the device!

Nana suggested that Little Blue Bunny be washed down the sewer - quite an adventure THAT would have been!- but D said No!.  LBB had to pay for making her wet and cold and possibly even sick.  So instead, the water was emptied into the sink and LBB climbed out, none the worse for wear.  Actually, he thought the whole thing was a riot!!

But NOT when Nana got hold of him.  Oh, he got such a talking to!  AND he got time-out.  AND he had to write D an apology.  AND he has to wash the dishes every night this week - WITHOUT overflowing the sink or breaking anything or making a mess.

Little Blue Bunny is sorry.  He's not sorry about the water overflowing, or the mess.  He's not at all sorry about the water suctioning pros - that was fun!  He's sorry that D got cold and wet and caught the (imaginary) sniffles.  Little Blue Bunny loves D.  She's his favorite "cousin" in the whole world.

Hmmm, what will happen to Little Blue Bunny today?