Joseph is so active he often gets into trouble. Last weekend he was too quiet in the bathroom and I found he had soaked the entire bathroom--the walls and floors were wet, the ceiling was wet, the toilet paper roll was entirely soaked, the rug weighed about 5 lbs with all the water it had soaked up, and I mopped about 1/2 inch of water off the floor! But, as if that wasn't enough, he'd gotten into my mascara, painted it all over his face, the sink, and the tile shower walls, and was filling it up with water and dumping the water out when I found him.
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| Joseph soaked the entire bathroom in water and then painted himself and the room with my mascara |
Later while running errands we stopped at Wendy's for nuggets and fries and frosties for dinner. When we got back home and I went to get Joseph out, what do you
think I see? A boy covered ENTIRELY from HEAD to TOE in chocolate
frosty! It's in his hair, his eyebrows, his shirt is now brown (it was
light blue) his hands are sticky, and it's coating his pants. So, I
tell him to walk to the house as we have to take a bath, and instead he
waits till I have my arms full of Kaitlyn and the diaper bag and starts
running down the street to hide in a neighbors yard.
So, after I caught Joseph I herded him into the bathroom for shower number
two for the day. I caught Elise and put her in as well. Then after I got them all
cleaned up and in pajamas and let them play quietly in the living
room while I did things in the other room. That was my mistake. Joseph
came and found me saying "orange". I was quite impressed that he
learned another new word, until I figured out what he actually meant.
He meant that he found orange yogurt (the bunny Trix yogurt that comes
in random shades) that someone hadn't finished and that
he'd made a mess with it. His arms and face were coated in orange
yogurt and there was a trail of orange yogurt on the wood floor from the
living room down the hallway, plus his blankie was covered in the stuff
as well. I probably could have given him another shower, but didn't
have the energy for it at that point. So, I wiped him down with many,
many wipies and then cleaned up the floor as best as I could. He kept
looking at all of it pointing and saying, "orange gurgurt" [yogurt] over
and over and pointing at it all so proud of his new word. Then, I went
and put them both to bed.
The next day went much smoother until just before bedtime when Elise came to tell me Joseph was being a naughty and moved the thinking chair in the living room. When I finally went to check on it all, he had moved the chair, but he had also coated himself in Boudreaux's Butt Paste as well as the chair, wall, and floor. At least he's cute when he makes big messes.
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| Joseph coated himself, the floor, the wall, and the chair with diaper cream |
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| Joseph and his mischievous look when he knows he is doing something naughty |
