Giving the Dora pinata a whack with a stick....
...Having never actually had a pinata before, we learned some things. Number one is that they don't come pre-stuffed. You have to stuff them yourselves. We discovered this AFTER we hung it on the tree. (We interrupt this birthday party for a dash to the bulk food store). Also, you no longer have to beat the living daylights out of it to get the candy. They come equipped with a nifty little trap door with strings attached. Everyone takes a turn to pull a string until the *right* one opens the trap door and the candy falls out.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the up-side, we can recycle the pinata. On the down-side, I have a sneaking suspicion that these changes in the nature of pinatas were engineered by uptight do-gooders who feel its not healthy for children to whack things with sticks in order to get candy rewards. I blow a large raspberry in their general direction.
We all agreed that the original method was grand idea....so we whacked it anyway...
..THEN we pulled the strings (at the same time so we didn't have to make it a competition)...and reaped the bountiful harvest....
Love you, baby boy.
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