Radio Flyer!
Though he won’t be eligible for a driver’s license for about 16 more years, River is now the proud owner of a new red car, thanks to Santa (a.k.a. GeeCee and Poppy)!
Since we are going to be in Hingham for Christmas Eve and Christmas, we decided to play elves a few days early and assemble the car tonight. Happy Solstice, River!
Because it’s our first pre-Christmas toy-assembling, we decided to take lots of pictures and laugh a bit, aided in large part to the Radio Flyer’s Chinese origins.
The first thing we noticed as we opened the box:
The car is Chinese, from Dong Guan. Sounds suspiciously like Don Juan…Will this car help River get all the ladies?
Or will he need to have perfectly coiffed (photoshopped?) hair like the kid on the box?
But on to assembly.
Luckily Rush and I “speak Ikea” – that is, we can interpret language-less, pictogram instructions that come with this sort of thing. Unfortunately, Ikea must have hired away all the good pictoram talent because these instructions had a number of flaws. For example, when they wanted to show an enlarged drawing with a magnifying glass, the artist failed to draw the part the critical part that was to be enlarged.
It also came with some unforgettably useful operation instructions. (Translated from Dong Guanese and snarkified by Sarah and Rush in italics):
How does one define the ‘performance’ of a foot-powered wooden car?
Have you met my 11-month old?
…he goes to bed at 6:30 and even he wasn’t fooled by those headlight stickers.
It _is_ a convertible.
My son can’t walk yet. Shoes? What are they?
Is that a question that River is supposed to ask every time he ‘starts’ the car?
I guess this means no joyrides on Storrow Drive?
To-Do: Take Radio Flyer instructions to bank safe deposit box. Yeah rightWhat they forgot to include:
In the end, it works great!
Thanks Poppy and GeeCee
December 31st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Keep on truckin’ Riv, looking good! Happy New Year!!