On Sunday evening, I put Abby to bed around 8:00pm and we didn't hear a peep from her, so of course, we assumed she had fallen asleep. Around 9:00pm I went upstairs to get Lexi ready for bed, and thats when I discovered the bright blue toothpaste EVERYWHERE! Abby had emptied an entire tube of toothpaste, all over her room. It was on the bed, the pillow, most of her favorite dolls and toys, the walls, the carpet, pretty much everything. This is just one of those instances where I just had to laugh, or else we would most certainly be minus one little girl.
So, I gave her a rag and asked her to help wipe it off the walls and she got to work while I threw her bedding in the wash. The next day, I finished washing all the toys and blankets that got "toothpasted" and put her room back together. We also talked a lot about who was allowed to use the toothpaste and who wasn't.
Well, it wasn't but a few days later that, while feeding Lexi, I realized that Abby was being very quiet upstairs. And that's usually a recipe for disaster. Sure enough, when I went upstairs, Abby ran out of her room to stop me and said "DON'T! Don't go in Abby's room!" That was my second clue that something was wrong. When I walked in her room, I discovered that all of her stuffed animals and dolls were coated in dog shampoo. And once again, there was shampoo everywhere, but the worst damage was definitely to the carpet. So, all the stuffed animals and dolls, took another ride in the washing machine, and her carpet was scrubbed with the carpet shampooer. If that was the only damage done that day, it would have been another "laugh it off" instance. However, over the course of the day she also managed to color of some important tax documents, clog the toilet with TONS of toilet paper, and feed most of her dinner to the dog. By the end of the day, she knew she was in BIG TROUBLE.
Oh man, what am I going to do with this curious, mischievous little girl!
