Yesterday evening, after dinner, I took myself to my bedroom with a book in order to get some peace and quiet and hopefully stop my back aching quite so much. I could hear the children running around the house screeching and playing; with Nathan occasionally breaking in to ask them to PLEASE go and play in their bedroom.
It was relaxing, right up until my son came into my room, tucked himself under my chin and nearly asphyxiated me with the smell of perfume. It seems, during their playtime, Isaac had tipped the remains of a bottle of perfume all over himself.
It wasn’t pretty.
For the record, a little bit of perfume is lovely – a lot of it is nauseating.
This morning, after a good wipe down, a bath, a sleep and another wipe down, he still smells vaguely of perfume whenever he tucks himself under my chin for a cuddle.
It could be worse however – there was a time when taking my eyes off Amy meant that she would fingerpaint the kitchen with butter, or the hallway with nappy cream. At one point she smeared both sudocreme and bepanthan into her hair, leaving her looking punky and smelling like sweet baby bottoms for a week. Waterproof nappy rash cream is not designed to shampoo out easily.
Nowadays Amy hides herself in the bedroom with a pair of scissors, paper and the sticky tape, madly creating before anyone discovers her absence. Despite the little bits of paper she leaves everywhere that refuse to vacuum up, I can’t say I mind this style of creative expression.
It’s certainly less frustrating than discovering an entire box of cocoa tipped out, or the corn flour tipped onto the floor!
What do your children get into when you’re not looking?
Yay for creating!
My youngest was a shocker for nail polish and my perfumes, but on the odd occasion it was also his dads razor, I don’t think I’ll ever understand why parents bedrooms an bathrooms are so alluring.
better to cut paper than her hair….
Yay for being so creative! And my little one just likes to get in to the dangerous stuff lol. He likes to get in to the DVDs, CDs, electrical outlets, plugs, toilet, knife drawers lol. He’s my third and the only one I’ve had to put baby gates up for lol.
Annie was into the sudocream for the longest time too, such a PITA to clean up. She liked to mix it with poo. ::gag::
Mum once gave the girls little travel packs that contained perfume bottles, both got spilled and the scent trigger asthma attacks all round, not pretty.
I’m so grateful we now live in a house with wooden floorboards, I’m okay with almost all mess play now because it is easier to clean up. Although last week Heidi found a birthday gift – glass pebbles and paint to decorate them. I’d hidden it because the glass paint wasn’t the type that washes out easily. She got busy painting, whilst wearing her school uniform. :: sigh ::
We have to worry about my son who is five. He wakes up before we do. One morning I awoke to find him sculling a bottle of orange cordial from the cupboard (so it was straight, not made up) that my partner had bought. I screeched at my man, ‘this is why I don’t let us have cordial in the house!!’ And yes, my son was impossible to deal with after that. Bouncing of the walls, he was.
My daughter has 3 older children (26 to 20) and 3 younger ones (8 to 4) (all from the same marriage.) The older ones are a great help with the little ones but the little ones get into so much mischief. The 4 year old managed to get the salt water taffy which was on top of the highest cabinet! Recently her husband left the marriage and she might be having to leave their home in a gated community and find something in town. She talked about buying a gun and that terrifies me. Those little ones would find it even if it was in a locked cabinet!
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