Innovations

My innovative and environmentally-conscious toddler recently did this to "cook da corn" :

It's brilliant. The hot water cooks your corn and it is clean and steaming at the same time as your dinner plates. You use less hot water, less energy . . . move over Al Gore! (I haven't actually gone through with the test pilot as I removed his handiwork after taking the picture. I'm a wet blanket.)

A couple of days later he found a paper towel tube I'd thrown in the garbage (I know, ew, but that's a 2 year old boy), and set this up:

That's my boy, reduce, reuse, recycle . . . (Don't everyone at once send me a dollar to buy him a real tee, it's not that sad. :) ) Another good innovation would be something that would keep his shorts on him. Lederhosen? Man, those Germans know what to do.

He got me thinking about things I'd like to see happen. Dates with my husband is definitely one. Don't have any brilliant ideas yet, but here's one that worked a couple of months ago:

It would also help me a lot to get exercise, and I have actually been trying. However, the other day as I was "running," I just knew that the people in the cars zipping by me were saying, "How does she do it? The movement of her feet is slow enough to be imperceptible to the human eye," and, "Dear, give me your cell phone, we should call 911." I really wanted them to know, "Oh, that girl is 3 months post-partum, I understand the situation." Then I wouldn't feel so silly. But how to convey the message? Put it on the bum of my sweatpants? Not really my generation . To strike down other ideas I've had, it's a lot more difficult running with a sandwich board, and flagging people down to explain is seemingly more awkward. Maybe the right innovation is a T-shirt with a REALLY large screen-print of this on both sides:

I don't know about that idea, either, but at least now you've seen a picture of what I have to deal with every day. Ain't life grand?