Action Figure or is it Finger?

My kids have already started drop­ping hints for gift ideas for the upcom­ing hol­i­day sea­son. And by drop­ping I mean they are telling us. There is no sub­tly with the 6 and under crowd. Sub­tly con­sists of jump­ing up and down, point­ing, and shriek­ing at the top of your lungs “I WANT THAT!!” Most of the time they have no idea what “THAT” really is, they are just point­ing to what­ever they are see­ing in the store.

I’ve been told sev­eral times. “MOMMY, I. MUST. HAVE. AN. ACTION FINGER.” And it’s with the most dra­matic sound to their voices, paus­ing for addi­tional emo­tive affect as if they are try­ing not only to get this but also an Acad­emy Award. I mean their dra­mat­ics are com­plete with head rolling to the side and the feel­ing that if deprived this “fin­gers” that my child would lit­er­ally fall to the floor in a ball and be unable to move on from the expe­ri­ence, for at least a whole 15 min­utes! 15 min­utes is LIKE FOR-EVER in kid time.

And by Action Fin­ger they mean this, not a Fin­ger at all but a Figure:

bionicle

It’s a Bion­i­cle. And it’s HUGE with the boys. I guess because it looks all robot-alien like and it’s from Lego, I mean you’ve got just about every­thing a lit­tle boy could love in there. Or so my boys tell me. I don’t know, I think they are weird looking.

And you can tell my daugh­ter has very dif­fer­ent tastes, given this is her idea of an Action Figure:

snow white baby doll

Yea, she’s def­i­nitely a “girlie girl”. At the same time she’d prob­a­bly have her Snow White baby beat up the boys Bion­i­cles. So, her “girlie-ness” only goes so far.

Although I’m think­ing it would be a lot eas­ier if I could just walk my fin­gers across the cof­fee table & call it a day. I mean, HEY, that would be a whole set of “Action Fin­gers.” Kinda like The Upside Down Show ? Except I’m not sure I could get my kids to be enter­tained by me just walk­ing my own fin­gers across the cof­fee table & com­ing up with some witty ban­ter but for some rea­son the guys on that show CAN. I need to fig­ure out how they do that, because really it would be MUCH easier.

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12 Responses to “Action Figure or is it Finger?”

  • My grand­son hwo just turned 3 wants Bum­ble­Bee. The trans­former. It is just that every yel­low car he see’s is bum­ble­bee. won’t be to hard there.

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  • If only it were so easy to enter­tain them like when they were wee kid­dos, the danc­ing fin­gers don’t work these days!

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  • How cute! I’m rout­ing for Snow White.

    My son’s big into Trans­form­ers this year. Oh joy.

    Just found your blog and am now fol­low­ing. Great stuff!

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  • Val:

    LOL! Action finger!

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  • Lisa:

    I’m so not ready for more plas­tic crap in my house and yet it’s inevitable. I sup­pose it’s worth it to see the kids so excited, but ugh, plas­tic crap. I’m not sure I’m ready for Christ­mas yet…

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  • Lucy:

    Oh my gosh! THis Santa just bought the Mother of all Fin­gers– the giant, 50 gazil­lion piece, 89 dol­lar Bion­i­cle. What is it with these things? And I have to say I’m pretty impressed with my chimp’s mad skillz at fol­low­ing the direc­tions and assem­bling these things. It’s good to know that he can fol­low direc­tions when he wants to.

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  • I got your action fin­ger right here!

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  • Oh yes, the cov­eted fin­gers. Sigh. It’s con­stant around here too with all these com­mer­cials!!! AAAHHH :)

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  • We still have those Bion­i­cles all over the closet!

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  • Action Fin­ger! I love it! That is just too cute. Isn’t it funny what the kids say and they don’t even know what it is they’re saying?

    Vis­it­ing over from SITS.

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  • If you hap­pen to find this illu­sive “action fin­ger” please write a follow-up post on where those inter­ested can pur­chase said “finger”…though, my idea of an “action fin­ger” only occurs in 5pm traf­fic on Fri­day when I’m try­ing to get home from work but the guy in front of me has out a map and is on his phone because he hasn’t got­ten the memo that they make nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems nowa­days that will help with his lack of pre-planning skills.

    Happy Hump Day!!

    ~Work­ing Mommy
    Come on by, stay for a while and leave a com­ment or two!

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  • LOL Ah Christ­mas, the time where we’re har­rassed for stuff, but at least we can say, “We’ll ask Santa.” Evan wants a skate­board, a bicy­cle, and a punk rocker hel­met ( a hel­met with a mohawk on it).

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