Every night around 6:30pm my kids take a shower or a bath. For about 6 minutes after they get out, they are shiny clean. Their wet hair glistens and is combed into exactly the right spot, their freshly washed jammes are dog hair free and their newly dried skin smells of soap and lotion. 6 minutes later they are a disaster.
Jack, my oldest son, is always inexplicably rolling or crawling on the floor. A floor that no matter how many times a day I vacuum, has dog hair on it. Nicholas, newly obsessed with his electric toothbrush has his mouth covered in toothpaste. Down the stairs we go for a bit of playtime where inevitably that combed hair turns into wild, unruly messes. A bottle for Nicky results in milk all over his mouth, jammies and sometimes furniture. The pacifier that follows the bottle traps the drool that can only come from teething and before I know it my baby's once sparkling face is now a disaster.
Tonight we didn't even make it 6 minutes. I literally got both kids out of the tub and into towels, turned them loose into the hallway and immediately heard Jack yelling "MOM, Nicky is peeing on my rug!" I ran in and sure enough there was my 19 month old, naked and taking a big ol pee on a restoration hardware carpet. Awesome. So now, I had one clean kid and one slightly wet kid that smelled like pee.
I wonder if girls are this dirty..
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