Friday, July 16, 2010

It Literally IS Everywhere!!!

Okay so three days ago my oldest (Brooke) comes to me and explains that her little sister is covered from head to toe (her EXACT words) in soap...so I think...great well at least it is soap (yes that thought REALLY did cross my mind). I go to where she is and she is standing in her room rubbing her hands together like she is washing them...I pick her up making sure to hold her no less than 10ft away from me...take her to the bathroom ...turn on the water and proceed to help her rinse the soap off of her hands...arms and rest of her body....only one little problem...when I went to grab her hands I was struck with this harsh reality....this was not soap I was dealing with but it was indeed vaseline...yep that's right vaseline. You know how you wash vaseline off??? Well...you don't...you don't wash it off as a matter of fact there ought to be a disclaimer on the side of the container stating: KEEP AWAY FROM TWO YEAR OLD BECAUSE WHEN IT GETS ON EVERYTHING YOU WILL FIND IT NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO CLEAN UP. Because surely if that was written on the side somewhere I would have never even brought the container in the house because...if a two year old can get into something Paige will certainly find a way. So my solution to the problem at hand was to #1. Throw the rest of what was left of the container in the trash..#2: Bathe the kid not once but two times in an effort to make her look not so shiny...And #3: Once the situation was evaluated and the kid was semi clean I then set out with a mixture of pine sol, bleach, dish soap and windex all mixed up in one container and proceed to spray just about everything I could think of that is in a two year olds range of reach and I thought...I really thought I had somewhat removed (at the very least rubbed in) every spot that had vaseline on or near it. So HA problem solved add that into the book of things I have cleaned since Paige started walking. But...for the last three days I have spent my days finding more vaseline...everywhere I turn it is on something else....I know one thing that is banned from the house at least until the toddler years are over...but I am beginning to wonder if we will ever be completely free of vaseline.

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