SPT Washing Hands

Me with Ladmo
(back row with braces--eek!)

I grew up watching the Wallace and Ladmo show. If anyone lived in Arizona as a child they probably would admit to be a follower of the show as well. You can bet each morning I plopped myself at 7am in front of the television to listen to "ho ho ha ha hee hee ho ho....."They would do skits in between showing commercials. I loved it because they showed all my favorites, Woody Wood Pecker, Pink Panther, and Tom&Jerry. But the show was best known for the "Ladmo bag." Everyone wanted a Ladmo bag including myself. One of the ways to get one was to be in a cub scouts pack, win one by phone through a drawing or send a photograph in of you and your pet. I am not sure what took me so long to do it, but I finally did in 6th grade. When the phone call came from the KPHO studios I was pretty stoked, I may have been the oldest kid to receive a Ladmo Bag, but I was going to be on television and get one!

The photo I sent in to get a Ladmo Bag
Me & "Boomer"

I brought up this particular show because the network that hosted had some pretty cheesy commercials back in the day. But, the tunes were oh, so catchy! One in particular that I remember vividly was one about being clean and not spreading diseases. (I wish I could find it)

"Wash you hands after going to the bathroom,
Wash your hands after changing babies too,
Cause' we don't want to spread Hepatitis,
and we don't want Hepatitis to catch you, Who? Y-O-U!"

Mom helping Luke in the public restroom
(you can guarantee this happens every time we are out and about)

"Wash your hands!" I think would rank up as one of the top phrases in my home. Now that we have a dog I use it even more. The other times you find me nagging this phrase is getting home from school, after going potty, eating a meal, etc. According to experts we should wash our hands as long as it takes to sing the ABC's two times through. There is just nothing better than the smell of clean hands--especially since we use them for EVERYTHING! Thank goodness we even have other means of washing our hands if water and soap aren't around. Purel is most always in my purse as well.

good deed: stopped to give directions to someone.