Just as advertised

So the little guy has started to really paying attention to commercials lately. Every night we let him watch a little Discovery Channel at bedtime. Usually he falls asleep instantaneously, but there are occasions when he watches for longer because he's not tired yet. When that happens, we find out all about the advertisements he watched the next morning. He's like a walking billboard.

Here are a few of my favourites:

- "Mom, did you know that you can get two chicken wraps for ninety-nine dollars?"

- "If you eat Vector cereal you get to be really good at sports! It will make you ski and bike and run and do all kinds of sports."

- "Mom, did you know that Tylenol can make you be normal again? It's the one with the white letters and the red bottle. You can even go biking because it makes you normal!"

- "On CBC they said you can get a DVD to help your child ready for back to school time. If you get it, they can learn about numbers and letters and then they can get the help they need for school."

Sometimes word of mouth advertising is also effective.

"SM likes to eat chicken in a cup."

"He eats chicken in a cup. What's that?" I asked

"You know, the kind that has the picture of the guy on it," he tried to explain.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"You know, the kind of cup with the guy on it who's old and has a white beard," he urged.

"You mean Kentucky Fried Chicken? In a bucket?"

"No, that's not what it's called!"

"You mean KFC?"

"Yah, that's the one. He eats chicken in a cup from there. And he gets it at the place that has the big, yellow "M" on the outside."

"You mean McDonalds?"

"Yah!