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Wednesday
Mar052008
Dear Leafy
March 5, 2008 
You are in such big trouble, kid.
At this very moment your poor, hardworking dad is REMOVING THE TOILET FROM THE BATHROOM with our plumber friend, because a certain someone who will remain unnamed (LEAFY! LEAFY!) flushed something that should not have been flushed.
This is not like the day that you gleefully streaked past me with your sister's pink socks, and flushed them, to her absolute grief and terror. This is not like that day, because although you traumatized your sister, who watched too late and in unbelief, and then cried for an hour, the socks just slid on down.
This whatever it is, I suppose we'll know soon enough, did not swim freely through. It lodged itself in the toilet, just well enough that things that should be in the toilet are not going down properly.
Leafy. It is not enough to be cute. It is not enough to resemble Barack Obama so closely. It is not enough to stand in front of the sink and ask me to lift you up to the mirror so that you can "listen." It is not enough to sing the cutest songs with the cutest voice in the whole world, including the entire alphabet song.
It is not even enough to kiss me with those juicy lips of yours.
Okay, the kissing and the lips? They're almost enough. And so are the "I love you, Mama's"
But I'm still going to have to ask you to join the rest of us in appropriate flushing. APPROPRIATE FLUSHING. This means no toys. No socks. No shirts. No shoes. No basketballs.
And no Little People. (Word just came from the other end of the house that one of your new Little People met an untimely demise. There has also been much whooping and shrieking.)
I love you anyways, Kid.
Mama dear
Reader Comments (11)
wow you have a toilet flusher .... i didn't have one of those. Fun and games for sure! Leafy!
He's so cute and innocent looking ..... what a little michief maker you have! Got to love that boy!
Oh, but those eyes are pleading innocence. Are you quite certain that there was no flush-happy intruder in the house today? Little People guy,yes, but surely he was framed.
OH hahahahaha. The Baby has just herself discovered the wonders of the toilet. I just caught her the other day trying ot insert one of the Girl's horses. :)
Target sells these nifty toilet locks that hold the seat down but can be pushed aside by the older kids who need to go. My friend had one. I'll be installing one of our own very shortly.
Hey, I thought mine was the only family who had Little People getting flushed stories. Once my sister and I watched our cousin flush not only a whole bag of potato chips down, but followed that trick with all of his sister's Little People. What a sad ending to a nice Little Family. My kids preferred splashing to flushing- playing with the bath toys in the pot- not sure how many sets we pitched over the years since the power of bleach couldn't even put my mind at ease. Eventually bathtime became all function and no fun at our house.
Oh, that Leafy Boy is so cute though. Gotta love the ones who play with the toitie- otherwise you'd be driven crazy by the nastiness and expense!
Give my condolences to YaYa- it's hard being a big sister.
OMG I never noticed the Obama resemblance, but now that you metioned it, he DOES look like Barack in that picture! It's Barack Obama with a pacifier!
Sorry about the plumbing. Eck. We have had a couple of close calls too, but luckily I have caught him in the nick of time. I imagine it's easier to listen for the fateful sound of the toilet seat being lifted when you only have one little flush-obsessed little boy.
Obama flushing the little people down the toilet? Does HIllary know about this? (Personally I think that the little people jumped rather than reveal their pot of gold.) mark
No shirts. No shoes. NO SERVICE! (Sorry, but I couldn't resist...)
Maybe you could draw a cartoony picture of a kid about to throw something in the toilet with a circle and a line through it, and then tape it to the tank. Or perhaps a picture of his Daddy taking the toilet apart -- you know, as a reminder of what can happen. Good luck!
My oldest son (who will be 10 next month) flushed an apple down the toilet this summer. That's correct, an apple. Now, it was not an organic apple...no it was a ginormus apple that was the result of way to many chemicals (read :grocery store). So he had taken only a few bites of said apple and flushed it down the toilet...just to see what would happen. Not bothering to ask his 9 millions questions like he normally does. No he jsut went and flushed it. My husband was not amused. We don't have a plumber friend to help so he did it all himself. Which included prying said apple out of the bendy part of the toilet. He wsa very glad that I had bought that box of extra large rubber gloves. He had even protested when I brought them home- "why do I need these?!?!?", but we know who he was thanki9ng that night for her wonderful insight of "you never know when you might need them". And just because I'm super curious what Little People person did he flush? Was it Sonia Lee, Eddie, Sarah Lynn, or Michael? Not that I have ever played with Little People. (its why I have children, so I have an excuse to keep buying the fun play sets) :)
dohhhhhh! what a trip! i can already smell your husband's work environment....
(i am now looking forward to having an outhouse again in a few weeks thyme even though my kids haven't gone that far as to flush things other than food and way too much tree carnage)
at least he didn't flush a human little people..!
kids are so darn loveable despite the trauma's we go through in their lifetime.
being able to laugh and whoop or scream shows you are all troopers, not party poopers that's for sure!
While you are training him not to flush, please also train him also not to give guests water from the toilet. I remember distinctly getting such a drink from him one day. LOL