On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1999 I bought a novelty frog that croaked “Jingle Bells” for my then twenty-month-old oldest daughter. My wife immediately hated “Froggie,” but he has become a Christmas icon in our home. After the first couple of years, she kept hoping he would break, or the batteries would go dead because there is no way to change them other than cutting him open. Moving forward to last Friday when she tried to sneak Froggie back in the box because she thought we were not looking. She looked at me and said, “It can’t still possibly work.” She was completely crushed while the rest of us cheered when she pushed the button and Froggie sang out like the day he was purchased almost exactly twenty-five years before. Now those are some good batteries!!
On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1999 I bought a novelty frog that croaked “Jingle Bells” for my then twenty-month-old oldest daughter. My wife immediately hated “Froggie,” but he has become a Christmas icon in our home. After the first couple of years, she kept hoping he would break, or the batteries would go dead because there is no way to change them other than cutting him open. Moving forward to last Friday when she tried to sneak Froggie back in the box because she thought we were not looking. She looked at me and said, “It can’t still possibly work.” She was completely crushed while the rest of us cheered when she pushed the button and Froggie sang out like the day he was purchased almost exactly twenty-five years before. Now those are some good batteries!!