Finding creative uses for household electronics

Chris went into the living room one day to find that Eli had pulled the front off of our wedding video. The next day, we got the VCR out of the attic so that we could transfer our videos to DVDs before he destroyed anything else. Unfortunately, Eli had broken the VCR before it went into the attic in the first place, so it spent a few days on the kitchen table before we threw it away. One day, Eli was sitting at the table in front of the VCR, and he said, “Oh no! Carrot go?” which translates to, “Mom, I put my carrot in the VCR and now I can’t get it out. Can you help me?” So I went and stuck my hand in the VCR in search of the lost carrot. The carrot I did not find. I did, however, find Eli’s toothbrush. The most amusing part of the story is that I had spent a good 30 minutes looking for his toothbrush that morning, and I had already checked the VCR. Because if I were Eli, I would have put the toothbrush in there, too.