Food sponges

Our children come to us complete with little character traits and foibles we could never have foreseen. Neither my husband nor myself, when planning our family's golden future, predicted that sponges would play such an important part. And yet, for better or worse, we now have a sponge worshiper in our midst. An obsessive counter of how many sponges she has in the bath each night. Someone who notices immediately if one of her sponges has been moved slightly from where she left it on the side of the bath.

It's a mystery to us, and yet, we figure it's pretty harmless as far as a three-year-old's obsessions go. So, for us, these food sponges look like a good purchase: they'll please our daughter and add a little levity to bathtime too. For those families blessed with children with a more straightforward attitude to bathtime (ie, they hate it), these might be useful too.