The Christi and Joe Bradshaw Family: adventures in toothpaste

Monday, March 9, 2009

adventures in toothpaste

I don't know exactly when it began, but I believe our children have a certain fascination with toothpaste. Through the years it has been found many places outside of the bathroom and outside of our childrens' mouths. Today's adventure in toothpasting took place in the kids' bedroom. They snuck it out of the bathroom when I thought they had taken early morning potty breaks. Yes, I know, I left it out of the medicine cabinet, but honestly, do you think there is much that can stop truly determined kids? Anyway, I went to get them up and dressed and found blue toothpaste smeared on the wall, on a bed, all over the rugs, and of course on the top of the boys' heads! Yay...just what I was hoping for, right? hehe. Our other adventures in toothpaste include painting a sink, painting and end table, and my favorite is filling toys. Yes, the last time we had a toothpaste adventure was right after Christmas. The kids had gotten a hand sized button that you pushed and it was Hallmark's Hoops and Yoyo making wise cracks and being funny. Cool toy...for the short time we had it. Not long after Christmas, the kids popped the batteries out, took it into the bathroom and filled the battery compartment with bright pink toothpaste! I will appreciate their ingenuity later...right? Anyway, never a dull moment!

6 comments:

Brea said...: Oh my goodness Christi, that is too funny! Well I am sure it is not funny at the time! haha anyway, hope you don't mind but I found your blog on Sara Crandalls and had to stop by and say hello! :); March 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM
johnbshaw716 said...: I'm glad we're not the only ones. I loved hearing your adventures in toothpaste. Any chance Hannah gets she will come and snag our toothpaste from our bathroom and go around the apartment sucking on it. If I catch her she'll run and hide behind the couch. She loves to eat that stuff!; March 9, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Sara said...: I am so sorry. That tops the worst mess I have heard of where a friend of mine's kids buttered their couch!; March 9, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Unknown said...: Oh butter! That would be a nasty one to clean up! Our all time worst is still honey on the couch on our Aug 15, 2007 post.; March 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Jenn said...: Wow, my kids love toothpaste, but mostly just eating it. You seem to have kids who like to smear things (yes, I was thinking of the couch too). Butter would be worse....; March 10, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Patty B. said...: Kids and toothpaste - there should be a movie about it! I'm glad your kids are normal, as were ours! Can you imagine growing up without ever playing with toothpaste, glue, ice cream, and hair gel?; March 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM

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Funny things kids say...

2/21/10 Jessica constantly invents words, like 'chumped' (see below), and lately she has been using a new word: patcharoon. Used in her sentence: ...smells like a patcharoon (as in smells bad). When I asked her what it means, she just gives me a weird look. Speaking of funny things kids say, my son just interrupted my typing to tell me he's having a hard time finding Santa Claus.

10/29/09 Noah has started including a new favorite line to all his prayers. It usually sounds like this..."please bless us to be healthy, and please bless Joshua to be bossy...and Jessica to be bossy...and Noah to be bossy..."

10/14/09 Here is another funny one that happened about a week ago. I confess, pregnancy and hormones does not always leave me in the best of moods, nor am I full of patience (*sigh*). I heard Jessica let out a long (and I mean LONG) yell. She yelled so long she actually started coughing afterwards. Anyway, during her long yell I run in and I say "What on earth is going on in here!!" Her response, "We were just playing and I was being the mommy." Great...

10/13/09 Joshua is really good at saying thoughtful prayers by himself. He includes all sorts of interesting things and people. Last night's was my all-time favorite! It included, "Thank you so we could not pee our pants today."

10/6/09 Joshua, (again!), says the funniest things! Joshua told me today that one of the girls in his class is his "friend of the heart". When I asked him what that meant, he said that "it means she thinks I'm cool and handsome." I asked him how he knew, and he said "because she smiles at me." So, my four year old son is a heart-throb apparently, and an expert on love!

7/13/09 Joshua went to the bathroom, in a hurry because he wanted 'refreshments' from our family night. He ran out and saw Mom, so he said "I washed my hands" while holding them behind his back. Mom: "Well, let me smell them." Joshua: "No, don't smell them, don't smell them," after which he ran back to the bathroom to wash up for real.

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3/13/09 Joshua's new thing is to say that everything is "dangerous", and that is his way of avoiding things. Here is an example:

Mom: "Joshua, go put on your pants."

Joshua: "No! I can't! They're dangerous!"

*Pretty much if I tell him to do something, chances are he is going to label it "dangerous". At first, I thought it was absurd...then I realized it was his tactic!

2/19/09
As I was putting Noah back to bed one night after having to stay up with him I found Joshua asleep in Noah's bed. He rolled over, looked at me, adn with intensity and distress in his voice said, "I don't want to sleep in my bed, it has too many dreams in it." I guess he has had too many nightmares lately!

2/15/09
I caught Joshua leaving the bathroom without washing his hands with soap.
Mom: "Get back in there and use soap this time."
Joshua: "But Mom, there's soap on the soap!"

1/9/09
Jessica curtly asked me, "Um, Mom, can we have a talk here? The boys are getting into trouble!"

1/7/09 (Joshua has apparently just been arguing with his sister and has chosen to come to me with his complaint)

Joshua:"Mom, Jessica says you're in charge."
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Joshua: "Ummmm...me?"