When it rains, it pours - and quite literally this morning.
On Saturday mornings Dwight plays basketball at the gym. Today he happened to leave his phone behind. But no biggie. We never call him there anyway.
The morning was plugging away rather uneventfully until I discovered the girls playing in the upstairs bathroom with their kitchen toys. This is a big no no in our house. They're not supposed to play with their kitchen toys in water because we've had several ugly incidents in the past. So I unhappily scold them and tell them to clean up the water they've spilled on the floor. In the meantime I hop in the shower and throw Kardynn in the bathtub (which is where all the girls are supposed to be headed, as soon as they finish cleaning up the mess). Annika saunters into the bathroom and informs me that Kiersten has made a big mess. Kiersten comes bursting behind her, in tears, saying the bathroom is leaking.
Uh oh.
I reacted poorly. I might have cursed. I'm not sure. But I definitely pounded the tile with my fist. Not a graceful reaction. I jumped out of the shower, grabbed my towel and ran down the hall. At this point, water is pouring out of the bathroom. The hall carpet is getting wet. There's water an inch deep all over the bathroom and more pouring over the sides of the toilet. I grab the plunger and manage to get the wad of toilet paper on its merry way. (Later the girls informed me that when the wad of toilet paper wouldn't go down, they just kept flushing. Naturally.)
I'm madly trying to soak up water with all the towels we have...and hopping mad to boot. Eventually I get the water soaked up reasonably well. I transport sopping wet towels from the tub to the laundry room and start load number one. And then I jump back in the shower.
Breathe.
I tell the girls to get in the bathtub and we resume our morning. I explain that I hope they've learned to not keep flushing the toilet.
The day will get better, right?!
Just now I discovered the puddle of water on the floor in the kitchen. I unscrewed the vent (water poured out when I did that) and discovered that the puddle is on the other side. Of course it is.
Is it time to page Dwight at the gym?
5 comments:
i'm laughing my head off. forgive my lack of sympathy. i should remind you of some of the things YOU and Danny did. NOT NICE. but you know this memory will one day be one the top of your list of days i'll never forget that make my kids SO unique. hey kiki was just TRYING TO HELP getting the toilet cleaned up. ok...some motherly advice: get a dry/wet vac ASAP you will need it over and over. trust me. i speak from experience. i guess the moral of the story is DON"T GET IN THE SHOWER WHEN THE KIDS ARE IN THE TUB!!!
i'm laughing my head off. forgive my lack of sympathy. i should remind you of some of the things YOU and Danny did. NOT NICE. but you know this memory will one day be one the top of your list of days i'll never forget that make my kids SO unique. hey kiki was just TRYING TO HELP getting the toilet cleaned up. ok...some motherly advice: get a dry/wet vac ASAP you will need it over and over. trust me. i speak from experience. i guess the moral of the story is DON"T GET IN THE SHOWER WHEN THE KIDS ARE IN THE TUB!!!
For the record, Kardynn was in the tub in the same bathroom where I was taking a shower (and that's where the girls were supposed to take their bath too). I don't leave any of them alone for baths. In fact, that was part of the hassle because I had to call Oskar up to supervise Kardynn in the tub in the one bathroom while I went to clean up the mess in the other. They were just in there to clean up the mess they had made on the floor from before.
What a fiasco!!! And you know I can relate to this ... I mean, I haven't had that particular flood, but my kids have done similar things.
And tonight Jack threw Natalie's bracelet into the toilet because he thought it would be fun to do.
Kids!
So, is the carpet dry now?
Adorable girls. And quite logical to keep flushing.
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