The truth about Legos!

So I was watching cartoons with the mini's this morning and this commercial came on. I found it quite humorous! I realize it's just a commercial and shot on a set that they created. I realize it isn't a real family, but isn't that the point? When I used to sell Cell Phones at Radio Shack, they taught us that the best sales tactic is getting the customer to pick up the phone and hold it to their ear, put it in their pocket, and touch it; this way they will be able to visualize how the item will be incorporated into their every day life.

As I watched this commercial I realized these blocks would never fit into my every day life. First of all...EVERYTHING is white! The little Boy in his WHITE bed, under his WHITE covers, with his WHITE walls, and WHITE carpet. There is like three kids playing NICELY on the WHITE floor, THE white rug, in the WHITE room, with WHITE furniture, OFF WHITE Dog, and mom sitting behind them smiling holding out her multi- colored birthday cupcakes which everyone is ignoring. The boy playing nicely in his WHITE ROOM, with his WHITE toy box in the background. Then the boy playing nicely on the front porch (on the WHITE rug) while mom reads her book. And finally the nice tidy WHITE room with every little piece of legos put in the WHITE toy box!

This is NOT a picture of what life is really like with Legos!! Especially in our house! Let me lay it out for you! Especially those new mom's who haven't taken the plunge into Lego buying yet. If it was our family in this commercial it would look more like this...

Picture it...Scene 1: Three girls, on the floor with Legos EVERYWHERE, screaming and hitting each other over the last red Lego! Mom behind them looking frazzled, frantically trying to scrub up the multi-colored stains from the cupcakes they knocked off the plate onto the floor then proceeded to stomped in squishing the icing between their toes! As the stain only gets worse with scrubbing, she hears a shriek as one of the girls chucks the last red Lego across the room into her sisters head, causing blood to splatter all over the carpet! The Off White dog, also stained with cupcakes, running frantically away from sister #3, knowing if he is caught he will be swung around by his legs and pulled by his tale until the frazzled mom is able to come to his rescue.

Scene 2: Three girls playing in their room, screaming jumping on beds, chucking toys at the walls, at each other, and not a Lego in site since they all got thrown behind the bed at some point in the chucking contest.

Scene 3: Outside on the porch with Legos, they go flying into the yard along with the children, screaming running around playing, eating dirt, grass, and whatever they can find between. Mom running around trying to keep them from going out of the yard and fighting with each other, unable to read ANYTHING, finally gives up and drags them all inside, leaving behind the precious Legos to get ran over by dad when he gets home from work.

Scene 4: A messy room with a White toy box colored on with crayons and markers, there are toys everywhere but not in the toy box. The Legos are scattered about the entire house, it will take at least an entire day to find them all! Most of them will be found not by opening the toy box but by stepping on them when you put your kids to bed, are walking down the hallway, across the living room, into the kitchen, pulling down the covers on your bed, and driving across them in the driveway.

So that is how they would fit into my life! I hope you see why the commercial made me chuckle! I almost want to go buy some for the girls just because of the effort they put into the commercial trying to convince me that my life will be clean, beautiful, and joyful with Legos. However as you see above the conclusion I came to is they will be used for nothing but clutter and weapons in our house. But I tell ya, if it really would make my house nice and white and peaceful like the commercial...I'd be the first in line!! haha!