“AHHHH! JAMIE JAMIE HE WILL GET IT!”
It is a good thing they are cuties!
(Becca and Ethan at the Library today)
Yesterday, Becca was preparing for a bath very slowly, so slowly in fact that I started nurse Ethan while I waited for her to be ready.
All of a sudden she starts screaming … “NO NO NO it is gone, I FLUSHED IT!” Becca was devastated, crying, screaming as she ran into our room.
Becca has her own bathroom in her room ~*sigh*~. She had taken to remain nameless till that evening, toy, placed it in the toilet and flushed.
Anyway, she could not tell me what she flushed. Rather she repeated a mantra at first I could not understand.
“JAMIE JAMIE HE WILL GET IT!”
Wha?
We told Becca that (while in California) the water that went down the drain, went to the water treatment plant then into the ocean.
She was thoroughly convinced that Jamie would go to the ocean and get her toy that she flushed down the toilet. There is some solid logic there, however faulty.
I told her that although Jamie is an amazing friend, he is not capable of recovering her toy. Should I be popping her bubble? Now I do not want her to think that she can indeed flush toys and recover them, yet there is a part of me that wants her to continue to BELIEVE … you know? She was so sure that the toy was ok … and that she would get another (I popped that bubble … I do not want her to take her things for granted … right?)
Alas, it is all part of raising children. Becca was not a destructive, experimenting toddler, yet somehow I feel like she is making up for lost time.
I am trying to be the mom that allows exploration within safe and respectable boundaries, but it is a tough gig.
Luckily, what she had decided to experiment with was a tiny pretend cat dish, which she cherished. I do believe her flushing toys down the toilet days are in the past.
What shall tomorrow bring? Never a dull moment around here I tell you!
I read somewhere else this week about a woman who dropped her ear ring in a rather yucky public toilet and then had to decide whether to fish it out or not!
Maybe it’s better that it was flushed away?
Cheers
First of all can that photo but any ANY cuter?!?!
I feel like my guys didn’t start doing things like that until my littlest one’s personality started showing through. Even 3+ years later there are these moments where I think - “You don’t usually DO this? What happened to you?”
That’s hilarious!
You tell Jamie to go down there and get her toy RIGHT NOW!
Every single one of my older kids went through behavioural stuff after the birth of the next baby. It’s normal - if aggravating.
Oh boy - there are so many tough lessons in life isn’t there? It’s unfortunate that we have to be the ones to teach them. I hope your toilet doesn’t get clogged…
A lesson well learned! Funny story too. We had a similar lesson here Re: taking toys places with us where they are easily lost. Yes, not too sure where “Brown Bear” is now, but we now know we don’t take toys to the mall!
Oh Gosh, you’ve got me wanting to jump in the ocean and get that darn toy!
Love that picture.
what an adorable pic!
Awww… aren’t the kids & their little imaginations just the cutest?
Tee hee about flushing toys away, I say this lightly as one never know what my Jillian is going to come up with as she get older.
The kiddies are so fricking cute!
Oh and Mean Moms/Kids suck!
A random response re:toilets, I read about a girl in (I wanna say California but could be way off) who did a science fair project about which ice was cleaner. ice from an ice machine at this restaurant or the ice made from toilet water from said restaurant. The winner? The ice made from the toilet water was cleaner! makes ya go hmmmm doesn’t it?
I am soo scared that something will get flushed and clog the toilet big time. You are lucky it went right down and did not get stuck.
Aww…bless her little heart. That’s so precious though. :o)
Awww - these kids of ours are so sweet!
Great picture of the two of them… they look so happy and so lucky!
I soooo wish we had a little cat dish to send her, but it just wouldn’t be right of course. But you just know Jamie will be sending her some toy her fished her out of the ocean. He “missed” her toy but got her another. I’m an enabler.
Hopefully it’ll take just that one time to lose something down the toilet for her to realize not to do it again!
That’s a new one for me. My kids didn’t do that, but I bet she won’t do it again. Kids are so interesting and how they view things.
That’s funny. I think sometimes that Fa is making up for lost time too..
I’ll keep a lookout for the toy at the beach….hee hee…you never know.
Poor thing. I’m sure she’ll never put anything but the goods in the toilet from now on…