If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's no surprise. I had no clue that's what these creatures we're called until late evening yesterday. Ha!

Wednesday night I was out, Nanny Harry had a day off and dear Nanny Jane is on holiday right now with friends (Harry has made her life much easier, I must admit) so Ryan ryan_beaches was minding the children.

Naturally there's little to do with P.J. pj_grey who is quite able at 12 to take care of himself. But Caitlin can be the handful, I must say. Ha!

While surfing away (as he likes to do), apparently Ryan happened on a Quiznos commercial!

That was the news, by the way, that Caitlin awoke and had to rush to tell me in the wee hours of Wednesday night (early, early Thursday morning).

Forwhatever reason Caitlin adores those ghastly unusual little rodents who sell Quizno subs.

Ever since then, she's all over everyone to play that commercial for her again!

Naturally 'Funny Daddy' was the focus of her questions/pleas, seeing as she credited him with having found it again after such a long time 'away.' (I have the impression that they're phasing out any use of the damned SpongMonkeys! Couldn't they please keep them around a bit longer, just for my little one?)

Well, if you've never seen the commercials, you can find one of them here and another one here.

The original site where they appeared (prior to becoming Quiznos reps) is here. (Be forewarned that it goes on and on and on. My. Same damned song, though! Ha!)

I found some of that today. But I was thrilled to locate one version of the commercial last night so I could play it three times for a delighted Caitlin. (As Ryan pointed out later, she'd probably have sat there watching it for hours, over and over. She loves it.)

I also printed her out her own picture of the ugly little rats. (What the hell are they, anyway? Ryan says they're created from a rabbit's foot...)

P.J. is quite hung up just now on Lewis and Clark. We gave him a stuffed version of Seaman (the dog that went with Lewis and Clark on their expedition) in his Easter basket. He's far too old to love stuffed toys in the fashion that Caitlin and his friend Missy do, but he admits to really loving Seaman. (And he's awfully fond of Scabbers, too.)

There's far too much candy left over and around the house from Easter, by the way. Sigh.

It took us some time to eat up the last of the colored eggs, too. You're supposed to toss them out after a week! I'm hopeful that adding the vinegar when we made them into egg salad for sandwiches kept us from food poisoning. Ha! (Well, anyway, no one got sick from the egg salad. Or -- so far -- from eating too much chocolate and other candy.)

Must dash back to my work so I can get home from the office before midnight...

Have a delightful weekend, all!

Cheers!