Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Bri...have I seen this mess before?

A friend of mine has a son who reminds me so much of Bri it is unreal. She just posted a picture of a mess he made while she was in the shower. It reminded me of something that happened over Christmas break that I never blogged about.

I asked Ben to put ceiling fans with lights in all of the bedrooms over Christmas. I was downstairs with the kids when he called for me to come and help for a second. I had to hold the fan up while he was attaching all of the wires. All of the kids came up to see what we were doing and then went back downstairs. About 2 minutes later Emma starts yelling that Bri is making a mess. Awesome! I yell back to her to try and get Bri to stop and help her clean it up. A few minutes later, I hear Emma yelling that Bri is making another mess. I yell back the same thing...to try to get Bri to stop and to try and help her clean it up and that we were almost done. I finish helping Ben and come downstairs. What do I find?

Bri had gotten into the freezer and pulled out my bag of yeast. You know the brick of yeast that you can get from Costco...all over the floor. Mostly on the carpet. Emma thinks you use wipes to clean everything up, so tried to get it up with wipes. All it did was make the yeast get wet and gooey. Instead of stopping, Emma just kept using more wipes...a whole container of them. And all of them were gross and had to go in the trash.
Then Bri decided to get into the fridge and pull out the gallon ziploc bag of shredded cheese and spread it all over the floor too. Emma was out of wipes, so she tried to sweep it, and then finally gave up. This is what it looked like.

5 comments:

Jenn said...

Isn't it amazing how fast they can make a mess? And yeast--yuck!!

Thanks for commiserating with me!

Mills Ohana said...

Emma is a sweetheart. My boys wouldn't have attempted to clean up a mess like that. They may have tried with 1 or 2 wipes then would have given up. That says a lot about Emma! You have a jewel.

iamwoman said...

PHEW! Oh--I feel for ya!

What an unbelieveably nice comment from a stranger! But really, you are not a stranger. Arn't we all sisters in this gospel? Nice to meet you!
I am so glad my words and that talk helped you -- I honestly have to read my own words daily:)

Tiana said...

Oh my Bri is amazing...seriously how she does it I will never know. Cutie Emma should get the best big sister award there is...I miss you and need to see you!

The Tate Fam said...

Dylan did that with pepper seeds once! You gotta love kids and their curiosity!