Happy Passover to all! (And an Easter, if that's your thing, too.)
Gave my niece Sydney a bag of 10 plagues this year. She's 2. I'm that kind of aunt. They were:
1. Blood (a small tube of faux red blood that turns invisible).
Result: Never opened, kept far away from her. "That never works," Craig warned.
2. Frogs (a plastic frog attached to a tube and squeeze end; it jumped when you squeezed).
Result: Best toy of all. Sydney squealed.
3. Lice (plastic bug).
Result: Placed into ice bucket.
4. Wild Beasts (a leopard mask whose nose fell right off).
Result: Sydney cried when I put it on.
5. Pestilence (or, affliction of the livestock; this was a small squeezable cow with gooey eyes; when you squeezed the cow more goo came out of the eyes. Particularly nauseating and wonderful).
Result: Much squeezing, much icking.
6. Boils (a green rubber sticky hand that you threw up against the wall and it stuck; also had a long green string coming out of the wrist end).
Result: Tossed up on wall, forgotten much of the night.
Later result: Removed, leaving faint handprint on wall, attached to my sister-in-law's nose while she fake-sneezed.
7. Hail (two white balls larger than ping-pong ones).
Result: Ignored.
8. Locusts (plastic grasshopper).
Result: Added to ice bucket.
Later result: "Can I have more ice?" Mom asked. Ice bucket opened. "The ice bucket is full of plagues."
9. Darkness (a small pair of sunglasses).
Result: Sydney broke in 1.5 seconds, but SIL reattached and she put them on and did a Stevie Wonder imitation.
Later result: Tears when they kept breaking.
10. Slaying of the firstborn (a puzzle indicating a dead kid).
Result: Never removed from plastic, put away as more morbid than the others.
All in all, a good seder.
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