Monday, February 20, 2012

Why does this always happen to me

My daughter has recently become obsessed with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. For some reason I am Mickey and daddy is Daisy (don't ask b/c I don't get it either) and she goes between being Goofy and Donald. This evening I was getting dinner going and daddy wasn't quite home yet, so Curly-Q was a little less supervised than usual.

She was right outside of the kitchen playing with some scarfs I gave her (she even had me tie one in her hair 1950's style.) I saw her head toward her room and thought nothing of it, her bathroom is also that way and we are potty training. Out of the corner of my eye, I she her walk back past the kitchen and I hear her saying "why does this always happen to me." I guess she is being Donald today. I ask her what happened to her but she doesn't answer.

It happens a couple more times before I can leave what I am cooking and investigate. I find her sitting next to a pile of scarves and at first I don't see anything amiss. Then I notice drops of water as she gets up and heads back toward the bathroom. I realize, as she is again saying "why does this always happen to me" and is pulling a scarf from the toilet bowl, that the entire pile of scarfs is wet.

For the past few minutes she has been dunking the scarves in the toilet and then dragging them back out to the hall and I think "why does this always happen to me."

Needless to say there was a timeout while I cleaned the mess and a serious discussion after about what does and does not belong in the toilet. And as my mom reminded me, at least she didn't flush.

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