A tornado hit my house last night. There are plastic bowls and dishes, DVDs, silverware, towels and clean socks and undies thrown all over the floor. Toys and books are interspersed, and blankets are weaved among it all creating an artistic design. Sprinkled on top are Cheerios and a splash of cut up pealed grapes. Oh wait, that wasn’t a tornado, just my 10 month old exploring and helping Mommy!
As a friend of mine posted to my facebook page, “Once they’re mobile, there is no such thing as tidy.” I’m not the queen of clean and my house wasn’t tidy before Miri started walking, so I’m not sure what I’m worried about. I guess it’s just the crunch under my foot and the squishy wet step I just took! Not to mention, if it’s on the floor Miri’s bound to put it in her mouth and probably eat it. We’re just building her immunity! Laugh now all you mommies of unmobile babies or those of you without babies, but you’ll learn.
Miri is a master drawer unloader, laundry unfolder, paci looser and explorer of the toilet. She follows in the footsteps of some other masters. I recall several times in the old house when her big sister Mazee dumped out either the flour or sugar bin onto the prehistoric carpet (who the hell carpets the kitchen floor?). Deegan once tore through the entire couch full of laundry in under 2 minutes. And then there was the time he helped me with laundry and threw a diaper in the hamper. Thinking it was sorted, I didn’t go through it very carefully. Note: washing dirty disposable diapers does NOT make them clean. It makes a mess which requires redoing the entire load of laundry. The most recent find in my load of laundry, Miri’s paci. Not very exciting in the sense of making a mess, but we found it. (Which is a better record than we have going this weekend. The paci is up 2 days of hiding to our none days of finding.)
With all this junk on the floor one could worry about tripping and breaking an appendage or neck, but as long as OSHA doesn’t drop by I don’t need to start putting the kids in hard helmets and padded suits.
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