Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
User Journal

Journal bethanie's Journal: On Second Thought... 20

Journal by bethanie
...Maybe giving a 5-year-old THREE full bottles of antibacterial hand soap from Bath & Body Works wasn't such a brilliant idea.

Particularly a very *creative* 5-year-old.

A creative and.... *fastidious* 5-year-old.

Because, sooner or later... you REALLY should know... She's going to decide to CLEAN HER BATHROOM with it.

I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

Right now I'm trying really REALLY hard to have a sense of humor about it and think about all the myriad ways that the mess could be worse. I mean... there ARE worse things to smear all over a bathroom, aren't there?

At least it smells nice.

*sigh*
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

On Second Thought... More

On Second Thought...

Comments Filter:
  • Did I tell y'all about what my 5-year-old did to my floor vents?
    • Nope. Now you must enlighten us.
      • Basically, there are a couple of floor vents in the family room that he decided would make good toilets. Like, urinated in both, and in one of them, pooped down it, wiped, and put the cover back on when he was done.

        Cost about $500 to have those sections of air ducts replaced...
        • LOL That is one of the funniest stories I have read here in a long time;-)
          • Oh... there's a long list of stories. I refer to him as "Henry the Destructor". I think I'm going to start a blog where every time he destroys something new, I'll take a picture of him looking sorry with the broken thing.

            Did you know that if you fill the toaster with powedered sugar and turn it on, it will catch fire? I know now.
            • Please do start that blog - I need something on occasion to remind me that Rhys isn't the most destructive kid ever.

              I thought it was bad when Rhys tore pages out of a book and used them as toilet paper...at least he didn't put them in an air vent. I can't imagine trying to clean that one up.
  • put your bathing suits on. and non-slip shoes and helmits and wipe them tiles & walls off w/ ROCK AND ROLL music till it's gone :) make it a party and take pics along the way!
  • Spent the evening trying to invent a "thomas show" on a "tv" made out of a big rubbermaid tub. Kept putting things under the tub to make the TV work. Spent the whole time rocking for bedtime serenading with made up song about the El. Great times :-)

    No big sticky messes other than food so far, but I know it's only a matter of time.

  • Yeah (Score:2)

    by allism ( 457899 )
    Yeah, it could be worse, like a full bottle of Aveeno lotion mixed with a full bottle of coarse grind black pepper, on the walls and carpet of a freshly painted room. Fortunately, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser removes damn near anything, from walls anyway.

    At least soap is CLEAN, and your bathroom will sparkle after it's all mopped up.

    • Re:Yeah (Score:2)

      by rk ( 6314 ) *

      My son once decided to mix food coloring and cooking oil spray on the carpet of our brand-new house less than a week after we moved in.

      We were not amused.

      • So did it come up? If so, how did you clean it?

        I'm asking because this sounds like something my son would do - we've got a safety knob on the pantry, where food coloring and cooking spray are kept, but we're not as good about closing it as we should. Knowing in advance how to clean up a mess like that sounds like a good idea :)

        We ended up having to put safety knobs on every room in the house for a while, including on the INSIDE of my son's bedroom - he would get up during naptime and go crazy. My desk is

        • Re:Yeah (Score:2)

          by rk ( 6314 ) *

          Well, we filled a bucket with hot water, added Dawn to it, and gently mixed it. Dumping that over the area lifted all the oil and most of the food coloring, which we sopped up with rag towels (or towels that would be rag towels after this mission).

          That got most of it, but we were unsuccessful in lifting up the full stain until we replaced the carpet with laminate wood flooring a couple years later.

          The lesson: they best way to clean up a food-coloring and cooking spray mess from carpet is to not make t

          • That's why we're planning on replacing all the carpet in our house with hardwood or tile over the next couple of years - with 1.96 kids, four cats, and a dog, there's no way this carpet is ever going to look good again. Especially since my husband only vacuums when I holler about it (I've been on modified bedrest/full bedrest since October, so I can't get up to do it myself). Since my husband's about to have a nervous breakdown from the stress of working, taking care of our kid, and taking care of me, I'v

            • Re:Yeah (Score:2)

              by rk ( 6314 ) *

              1.96 kids... bedrest... So, when's the baby due?

              I don't know if it took a rocket scientist to figure it out, because I am (well, was) one.

              • Baby Zoe is due March 16, but the induction is scheduled for February 23. I'm counting the days - with Rhys, I was only on bedrest from the 29th week, with Zoe I was told to start taking it easy due to rising blood pressure at about week 12, and was told in October to only be up for an hour or two a day. After Christmas I was told to just stay in bed.
  • I made a cup of broth with four bullion cubes.

    My dad insisted I drink it so as not to waste them.

    I added another cup of water to dilute the taste.

    That gave me two cups of horribleness.

    I don't remember drinking much of it. Never finished it either. I think there was tears and pleading involved.

    Learned a lesson though.
  • At least she's cleaning..

        I can think of a few other colors that you'd hate to see in there.. :)

  • That is probably the least offensive substance I've heard of a child smearing on walls ;)

    Last weekend Mercer was taking a bath and my sister called, so I fished him out of the bathtub but left the water in there so he could get back in after I was done with the call. In hindsight this was a bad idea as the husband had just finished stocked the bathroom with paper products the day before... So my phonecall ends and I hang up the phone and turn back to the bathroom to see my son has grabbed every roll of

  • ...one of which ends with "and then the manager came and asked my Mom to leave the grocery store."
  • My daughter went for the concoctions as well - odd cocktails of every liquid and semi-liquid she came across that I would agree to. (Yeah, I found it easier to yay or nay than to deny her the activity.) Some of those things were shampoo, conditioner, soap, hair gel, sunblock, soda, ketchup, mustard, and so on. Too bad she outgrew that or she might have had a future as a chemist. :P

Slashdot Top Deals

A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson

Close