Momma Hen

Thursday Thirteen

February 18th, 2010 by Jen Hen under The Busy Life. 2 Comments.

I dozed off on the couch with my sweet, wonderful, adorable three year old, Lil’ C, on Sunday morning. I fell asleep with him cuddled up with me under our favorite quilt. He was dressed in his favorite batman pajama pants (including his super cute Cars pull-ups covering his bum). Allow me to outline for you, thirteen things I awoke to a short thirty minutes later.

1. A naked child. By naked I mean, no pants and no pull up. But I do not mean that he wasn’t covered in something… something blue. From head to toe. As I began to grab my bearings for where I was and what was happening, I realized what I was seeing…
2. Toothpaste. A tube in his hand. A brand new tube of minty fresh children’s blue toothpaste.
3. “What are you DOING?” I asked as I stumbled towards the bathroom to assess the scene, only to step in a pile of the gel within three movements in the general direction. “Oh gosh.”
4. A toy mustang… it needed to be cleaned up apparently… and smell better… as did…
5. The television screen
6. The bedroom window
7. The blankets
8. The bedroom carpet
9. The bathroom carpet
10. The air vent
11. “Baby” (also known as his teddy bear)… front, back, head, to toe.
12. The stove and counters in the kitchen
13. And a brand new bottle of Garnier Fructis needed a healthy coating and a dip into the kitty litter box. ….
14. For this particular Thursday, you get a bonus because 13 is not where he stopped… let’s add in the VCR, TV cart, walls, and kitchen floor. Actually, I’m still finding random spots here and there.

Two hours of cleaning later… I’m not sure what the most valuable lesson was for me to take from this experience. Hide the toothpaste from now on? Do not fall asleep under any circumstance? Expect extreme artistic expression out of Lil’ C in the future?