Product Review

My son was given a wonderful Christmas gift, a Little Tykes Kenmore Elite kitchen. I thought it was great, until today, Little Tykes is pissing me off.
I have two issues:
1. What do you think will happen when you give a kid a kitchen, with a sink and pots and pans....what will that kid want to do? Hopefully if he is normal, cook. What do you give toddlers to cook with? Water. Well, in my kitchen we have a water cooler because the water here tastes like toothpaste backwash. So Sam likes to help himself to his cooking water. Today he asked me if he could make me some coffee, to which I said yes. Well, he usually "makes" the water/coffee directly in the cup, but today he wanted to cook it on his stove in the pot that came with the Little Tyke Kitchen. Sam was busy stirring away his coffee while I was making lunch, when I turned around to walk to my daughter in her highchair when I went flying. Wet tiles are slippery, especially when you don't know they are wet and you are wearing rubber flipflops. Apparently Little tykes thought it would be a bright idea to put HOLES in the bottom of ALL of their containers. Bright move...which kids did they use for their market research I wonder....now my Sam is trying to plug the holes with glue, even better.
2. After the incident above I was on my hands and knees cleaning the water off the floor, Sam was now cooking in an empty pot at the stove. I heard a dog bark. I kept cleaning. Then I heard a door bell...(not my door bell). A few minutes later as I was tidying the living room I heard a baby crying, then in a high pitched baby voice I heard "feed me mommy, I'm hungry". Now Sam has taken to talking like a baby for attention in the last few weeks, so from the other room I scolded him for this behavior and carried on with my cleaning. A few minutes later there were more baby cries followed by a "clean my diaper mommy, I made a mess" which was very quickly followed by a "hug me.....tickle me.....kiss me..." then more crying. Into the kitchen I go, scold my two year old for acting like a baby to which he replies it was not him. Well, this leads me into a two minute long speech about what a lie is and blah blah blah...I turn my back to walk away and I hear "I made a poo poo". Gee, that really didn't sound like Sam, now I am confused. Well, Kenmore Elite no longer makes cooking sounds. It seems the water short circuited something and now my kids kitchen barks like a dog, cries because it's hungry and apparently has the shits.
WTF Kenmore Elite, seriously WTF!