glowing in the wrong place

I was five when my parents bought me one of these:
















It's a glo-worm. This little guy wears a night cap and his head lights up when you squeeze him. But I just watched BBC's Planet Earth, and turns out that real glow worms don't actually wear jammies and their heads don't light up. Glowing goes more like this:


















I guess I can see why Playskool took a few liberties. I don't see too many parents buying Glo-worms for their toddlers with this catchphrase on the box:


"Squeeze me and my butt lights up!"


4 comments:

Heather & Matt Fisher said...

Kathy! HEY!! I didn't know you had a blog!! this is great, and I can't wait to see you at the lunch/shower special. miss you!

Heather & Matt Fisher said...

actually i lie. i think i saw an email, but it just hit me. oh, and i had a glow worm too. i loved mine. :)

Ali said...

And I totally had one of those. Or actually maybe I just remember latching on to yours... I dunno, regardless, I loved it. Actually maybe it was Amy's...

Harris said...

LOL! that is hilarious. awesome post. so...when are you two going to come up to the Lord's country, aka, rexburg and pay us a visit?