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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

One of those Days

When the Big Giraffe and I first moved into our house, we wanted to hang a haindpainted spice rack that my parents had given us on the kitchen wall. The previous owners had left their old spice rack behind in what I thought at the time was a generous gesture. Let me just say that our 13 pound cat managed to take down the light/exhaust fan above our stove and pull down some of the wall with it, but when she sat on the spice rack it didn't budge. We had multiple people look at it and no one could figure out how to get it off the wall. At the time, the leading theory was that it was hung up with liquid nails as some solified goop could be seen. Now as a parent I have a different theory on what they used: oatmeal. Once that stuff hardens, it's almost impossible to remove. The next time (by which I mean the first time) I build a brick house myself, that's what I'm going to use in lieu of cement. I'm sure that's what the third pig in The Three Little Pigs did.

Today was one of those messy days. YS had just finished eating his oatmeal which today meant that half of it was still left in the bowl. As I unclipped the booster seat tray I thought to myself "If this bowl spills there will be a gigantic mess." Wouldn't you know that's exactly what happened. The oatmeal went everywhere: the table, the floor, the chairs, the booster seat, YS and the dog. It took forever to clean it up, but I dared not leave it for later, as rumor has it I may do on other housecleaning tasks, because of the above-mentioned liquid nails like factor.

I thought we were good to go. We went to to a birthday party and the kids had a blast. The adults did too, because somehow everyone refrained from making major messes. Things were not so smooth back at home. At dinner YS managed to get applesauce everywhere including his hair. This was followed by a leaky diaper. And of course our dog Gandalf made his contribution by chewing a hole in a stuffed dog toy and letting out a flood of tiny plastic pellete that YS wanted to try to eat. Applesauce, leaky diapers, ripped stuffed animals, and plastic choke-hazards are not included in my house building plans.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 10:35 PM   3 comments
3 Comments:

  • At 7/12/2007 2:06 AM, Blogger Absolutely Bananas said…

    oh it's so true what you say about oatmeal... once it hardens, you might as well just throw the bowl away!

     

  • At 7/12/2007 8:05 AM, Blogger Jenn in Holland said…

    hehe! Better than cement for sure!
    Can you share design plans for your first brick house, then?

     

  • At 7/12/2007 3:31 PM, Blogger Cori@SAHMbles said…

    Oh, the worst oatmeal mess I had to clean up was when Cam was sick. I thought he was feeling better so I gave him a huge bowl of oatmeal and 8 oz of milk. He ate and drank every little bit. Ten minutes later he was standing beside Matt at the table and started to cry then it all came back! Matt just sat there and and said over and over again, "Cam puked Mommy! Cam pucked!"

    The best way to clean-up hardened oatmeal is to soak it with water, it goes right back to it's orginal soft state in about 20 mins.

     
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