Lesson Learned
Mistake #1 was giving my daughter a chocolate chip cookie.
I didn’t think she’d eat it, though. She’s still not very fond of feeling anything with texture on her tongue. Figuring she’d get bored of it in 5 minutes, I gave it to her for something to hold in her hand. I watched her for a few minutes with it, until I was content enough that she wouldn’t try to jam the entire thing down her throat.
Mistake #2 was forgetting that I gave my daughter the cookie.
More time elapsed until Jayden came out, with a look of disgust. That isn’t saying a lot, however, since the boy has the gag reflex of a fly. “Maddie has something on her hands!”
Her hands? Oh, right. She still has that? “It’s just cookie”, I told him nonchalantly as I returned to checking on twitter what I was doing.
“Just go see!”, he urged.
Always one to oblige, I put my laptop down put a halt to the important matter I was attending to and went back to where they had been playing. There, I found my darling Maddie. Covered in mushy cookie remnants and a look of “what the hell?”. All over her face and between her fingers and down her pink shirt. I grabbed a towel to wipe her clean and that’s when I saw the rest of the cookie. Chocolate chip tracks smeared across my bed.
Lesson learned, indeed.
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In that moment, the voice in my head drops a big F bomb. Lovely….
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@Tina, Normally mine would, too, but I was too amused this time. Plus, it kind of served me right.
D’oh!
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Thank God for Shout gel. You know, for the bedspread, not the toddler. And at least you could tweet about it. =>
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Haha. I’ve learned a similar lesson recently.
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Oh no!! ::giggles::
But on the bright side…she gave you inspiration for a blog post!
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Oh, the tracks on the bed…nightmare! I find that any trail of crumbs or food particles anywhere but in the kitchen is so annoying!
Oh my word – story of my life. I can’t tell you how often I pay for just a little bit of peace. This easily could have happened at my house – in fact, I think it has. It was worth it.
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They just know when we are doing “important” work don’t they.