Keeping Secrets

Shhh! Don't tell on me!  I have secrets. I go secret places, do secret things, and I can't tell my kindergartener.

While she is at school, she's so afraid that we are going to do something without her. What if she misses something? I always promise that we will just wait until school is done, that's all we will do. Just wait. We won't go anywhere, we won't have playdates, we won't eat cookies, we won't see any of our friends, we won't watch any good movies, we won't read any good stories, we won't play, we won't have any fun. Promise.

It's a promise I cannot keep, but it makes her feel better to know she's not missing out on any of the fun.

Sometimes she'll ask me what we did while she was at school and I reply with some truth and some things that I just wish I would have accomplished:  grocery shopping (she hates to tag along for that), laundry, mopped the floor, cleaned the toilets, and watched the news. 

Yesterday, I went to the zoo. Shhhh!  Today, I went shopping and we ate at Shakey's Pizza. Shhh!  It's a secret! At least once a week my three year old and I go to a park. Sometimes we take the dog too. We'll never tell!

Funny, but I keep these same secrets from my teenager too. She is exactly the same as my kindergartener! When I pick her up from school and she says "What did you do today?" sometimes my brain freezes for a moment and I leave out a few details of my day.  Umm.... nothing special. Tee hee hee.  Shhh!

Toilet Paper Snowballs

She's four, she's fun, she's creative, Gracie has some great ideas sometimes. This wasn't one of them. 

They are old enough now where I can sort of wander around a bit upstairs between the bathroom and the bedrooms while they take a bath.  We just leave the bathroom door open and I'm pretty close, or I sit in the hallway (where it is carpeted and easier to sit on than the bathroom tile) and read a book. 

Last night while they took their bath I put laundry away in their room which is directly across the hall from the bathroom.  I got their room all cleaned up and by then bathtime was over.  The mermaids were all finished with their daily swim, Dora and Boots had gone down the slide in their castle, all of the dolls were clean.  Kids too.

I took the girls out of the tub and to their room to dry off and get jammies. I got panties on them, picked out their jammies and left them to put them on. I went down the hall to my room and was putting away laundry, and I can hear them giggling and playing... no big deal, right? They must be playing with the toys I just rotated to their room and they haven't seen them for months. Then I got to a good stopping spot (cuz putting away laundry is never done) and go see about getting their pajamas on them.

And that's when I find them in the bathroom in nothing but panties, the tub still had water in it (oops) and it was filled with toilet paper. The girls are covered in wet TP, walls are spotted with "snowballs" and dripping to the floor, which is soaked with water and TP, tub is full of dissolving TP, and the girls are smiling from ear to ear. We had a good idea! Toilet Paper Snowballs! It's so much fun!

The entire bathroom is wet and coated with wads of mushy toilet paper. The tub is too. There is soaking wet tp on the walls, mirror, vanity, toilet, door.... I got it toweled off of the kids pretty well, and what stuck to them has since dried up and fallen off. I didn't wash them off again.

I decided to let it dry a bit before I going up and tackle cleaning it all up. I'm going to have to pour a bunch of bleach in the tub drain so it doesn't clog. I didn't even let the water out yet. The more is dissolves the better I guess. I finally did let the water drain, now the tub and all of the barbies and toys are covered in toilet paper mush.

Today, I've been avoiding that bathroom. I just don't even want to deal with the "snow"!  I suppose I should go in there and finish cleaning it up.  Sigh.  Their room is a disaster now too.  Clothes and toys everywhere!  They are very fun little girls, but they sure are messy and they don't clean up after themselves!

They have a lot of their dad in them. I'm sure he was like this as a child. God knows, I was an angel!