Yesterday morning, Baylor emerged from her bathroom declaring that she had brushed her teeth all by herself. We all got very excited and I made a mental note to rebrush them later…
While passing by her room, I noticed a very strong smell of strawberry…upon further inspection I found that apparently in the “toothpaste on the toothbrush” portion of the morning, she had squirted about a third of the bottle of toothpaste into the sink. And now it was hard and not easily washed off. Crap. I made another mental note to deal with it later.
In the evening, PW and I were making dinner and chatting about schedules when it dawned on me I hadn’t seen or heard the munchkin in a while. My “what are you doing??” yell was answered with “ANYTHING!!” which is translated to I’m not doing anything which is always a lie. Two minutes later she came running into the kitchen announcing that she had cleaned all the toothpaste out of the sink! Awesome, I thought…and then I really thought about her cleaning skills and got a little worried. I asked her to show me her good work…which is where I discovered that apparently in two year old world, cleaning the toothpaste out of the sink means using goldfish crackers to do so.
This time I made a mental note to tell PW that this was a daddy clean up job.
The Goon Room 
Very funny post! I remember those days yet find I still have similar strange experiences and my daughter is now nearly 7 :O
oh no! I thought it would get better!!
In my personal experience, the little messy things only become more wide spread as they get older – and more difficult to control. Still, I should count my blessings: at least she isn’t a teenager yet 😀
What is it with toothpaste this week? A decided to cover her entire body in it on Friday during “quiet hour”!! 🙂
I loved the pics on FB 🙂
Oh my!
Why does independence in our children lead to so much work for the mamas? 😉
I absolutley LOVE the name Baylor! So pretty!
Seriously! I’m always a little shocked when she does something that doesn’t create a mess – and thanks for the complement!