Sometimes I have to wonder what I'm thinking and then I realize, I'm just not. Thinking.
Bones has been begging me to play on his slip 'n slide. So yesterday I got it out. The big thing is to put dishwashing liquid upon it, making it even more slippery.
Son#2 decided that instead of playing on the slip 'n slide, he'd be in charge of the soap.
I handed him a full bottle, Economy Size, and told him to be careful.
What does that mean, 'be careful'? Nothing concrete. In his hands that meant, 'don't pour it in your brother's eyes' or 'don't hit your brother over the head with the bottle' or 'don't let your brother mow you down when he's running through the yard for the ultimate slip and then slide.' Myriad things, yet nothing at all.
What I should have said was, "Don't use more than 'this' much" showing him what 'this' meant.
But I didn't. So I am partially to blame. He is too... for just not using his brain.
He used HALF A BOTTLE of Dawn soap on that slip 'n slide. HALF A BOTTLE!
I go outside and there is Bones head to toe in either blue soap or bubble, eyes shut. He was SCREAMING like a banshee.
I grabbed my t-shirt and started wiping off his face, but evidently, half a bottle of Dawn soap on one 12 foot slip 'n slide, can put a serious hurt upon one's eyes. I ended up carrying him into the bathroom and putting him in the shower to rinse him off and clear his eyes. I couldn't believe the quantity of bubbles his little body generated when in the shower. A virtual bubble machine was he.
Evidently he was not blinded for life or there wouldd have been no blogging last night, but a lesson has been learned by all. Their lesson is my mantra to them, "less is more" which also coincides with my 'bigger is not better' since that bigger/better thing is something those with y'chromosomes are BORN WITH and it is NOT learned. My lesson was 'extropolate'. I should have told him what I meant by 'be careful'.
We've been getting some rain from some icky weather and of course when I awoke this morning to rain, and realized I hadn't put up the slip 'n slide in all the commotion last night... I just HAD TO run outside to see what a half bottle of Dawn creates in bubbles, but alas, it had been raining all night and there were none.
I can very much picture this after seeing them use that soap in the summer. I thought that was a lot.
I was thinking that these boys are getting in practise for a college wesson oil party but then I thought, nooo, Bou will raise them better than that. Generic oil is cheaper. LOL And better teach them how much soap goes in the washing machine also. I learned the hard way and had the cleanest basement floor in base houing one time.
oh the eyes......that will always get them, everytime. However that is a lot of Dish soap to turn a child blue.
My hubby is all about the bigger is better thing. You should see his lawn mower vs the size of our yard.
Stop...I am laughing so hard, I am crying. I have so been there...well, not exactly there, but you know what I mean.
Baby shampoo sounds sooooo much better. I was thinking all day about the crisco oil... would I use 409 or Greased Lightning to get it off the kids? That's all that takes it off my cabinets. I can't imagine getting it off my kids.
Hysterical... Did you think of joining them for a ride on the slide? Might have been just the thing to jarr that cocoa puff loose... A little dish soap gargle, followed by a slippy ride?
The crisco was a joke, although if you did use it, you could get if off with Dawn dishsoap.