Bubble Machine Bliss

It started out as an impulse buy, one of those tiny little overlooked items sitting on the toy-store shelf that normally I would never have even noticed. We were on our triplet’s first movie outing, down at the Boardwalk, and we were passing the toy store.

It was funny. They had a door-person out in front of the store with this dinosaur bubble machine whose job it seemed was to make as many bubbles for passers by as possible. It reminded me of when I was in NYC and had seen the one for FAO Swartz. That’s what initially caught my eye, as I am a huge fan of the bigger toy-land type toy stores in bigger cities.

Of course, being the Mum that I am, I steered our heavy laden limo-sized stroller into the shop, knowing that my triplets MUST have a bubble machine. I could rationalize this, really I could.

We have been having dining troubles, eating woes, and I had discovered that if the babies were distracted, they would eat from the spoon without much thought. This could be the answer!

Of course, I didn’t get out of the store all that easily. I left with two motorized trucks complete with motor and lights action, a Mortal Combat action figure, and a shiny new triceratops bubble machine.

We got our booty home, only to discover that once we fed our triceratops with battery’s, he didn’t reciprocate by blowing any bubbles. His tummy didn’t even grumble any to even give us hopes of the promised bubbly-goodness to come.

Lucky for us, we live pretty close to the mall, so I was able to leave the kids with my son and run up there and exchange our triceratops for one that was feeling a bit more rumbly in his tummy! Oddly enough, because I had purchased the original one in Bossier, and was returning it in Shreveport, I was due a whole refund of a penny. Guess it all works out after all!

I was able to make it home before dinner and get our new triceratops bubble guy fed with his batteries and full of bubble goo in time for dinner. We managed to get all of the triplets situated in their little chairs and us surrounding them for damage control. We quickly found that bubbles were the answer to everything! They were so busy reacting to the bubbles that they didn’t have any time to try and figure out ways to avoid my spoon full of dinner!

Vivie likes to eat her bubbles. Kian will try and catch them, which makes him giggle hysterically to the point that he has trouble stopping (I have to make sure that I let him calm down before sneaking the spoon in!) Kaiden flails his arms cross-wise in some attempt to keep the bubbles from getting in his face (apparently that’s too weird of a sensation for him) but he doesn’t mind popping them or touching them with his fingers!

We play with our bubble machine when we eat. We play with it in our play yard so we can chase them in hopes of fooling the babies into leaving their safety-zone and taking more steps. We take it with us for distraction when we go out shopping. That tiny green triceratops has become quite a facet in our family, leading to much bubble machine bliss!