Those words should have warned me, but strangely, they didn’t. I thought Tommy was just parroting my comment to Derek at breakfast, when Elizabeth eschewed the spoon and used her hands to eat her yogurt. Nope.
So last night was pretty rough, making for a pretty dead mommy this morning, and today I had to take all three kids out to the grocery store to mail a package for Derek. It was crazy. With Susie in the cart, Elizabeth thought this meant she could ride on the back like Tommy does, which meant Tommy was free to run wild while I stood at the post office window. And his sister thought she could chase him through the bread section. The guy was very nice to me as I interrupted myself about ten times in the course of a two minute transaction to herd my children in. I grabbed a Snapple Raspberry Tea on the way out as a new source of caffeine to get me through the afternoon. Back home, by the time the kids were fed and before I had a chance to sit down and drink my snapple, Susanna woke up and wanted to eat. I set the kids up with crayons and retired downstairs for less distraction while I nursed her. Several minutes in, Tommy called down, “Mommy, come look what your daughter did!” and I told him I’d come up as soon as Susanna was done eating.
When I came up the steps, there was Elizabeth with an empty 20 ounce snapple bottle in her hands in the midst of a very wet living room floor. I must have left the lid off when I picked up her sister. And she was wearing a (formerly) white shirt, too, of course. As I peeled the raspberry tea smelling clothes off of her in the bathroom, I was sorely tempted to just hose her down in the tub with ice cold water, but I controlled my temper in time and made it nice and lukewarm. I do think she could tell how mad I was, though, because she went down for her nap without a peep. And I got out some of my frustration mopping the living room and dining room. Now I’m off to work on getting tea stains out of a white shirt.
you are so funny – throw the shirt away! also, re: Tommy in the PO, http://www.ecrater.com/p/10190953/2-child-toddler-safety-wrist-link I have my original one from the 80s but its a lifesaver.