Momo Fali's: Now Hiring: Bathroom Monitor

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Now Hiring: Bathroom Monitor

The other day my seven year old son came in the room where I was reading and proudly announced, "I just peed in the bathtub!"

I put down the newspaper. "What? Why?"

"Because my sister was using the toilet and I needed to pee really bad."

This conversation would make perfect sense...if we didn't have two other toilets.

The next afternoon, he was eating some grapes when he dropped his entire bowl on the floor. Because we have two dogs, there is no such thing as a five-second rule in this house. My husband told him to go wash off the grapes before eating any more of them.

After a few minutes my son returned with any empty bowl.

I asked, "Where are your grapes?"

"I put them down the drain."

I hesitantly asked, "In the kitchen sink?"

"No. In the bathroom."

My BBQ skewers have never come in so handy.

Labels: Family Life, Kids, Shameless Statements

# posted by Momo Fali : 8:33 AM

Comments:

Would I get to hand out those combs from the blue water while sitting next to every cologne under the sun? Do I get to keep all the tips?

# posted by

OhCaptain : June 25, 2009 at 8:58 AM

hmmm, maybe a nanny cam in the bathroom? If it doesn't catch anything bad perhaps you could become a youtube sensation.

# posted by

Hockeyman : June 25, 2009 at 9:18 AM

Oh my. At least he... I mean, you didn't have to... err, but the...

Never mind.

# posted by

Melisa Wells : June 25, 2009 at 9:27 AM

Well, he's resourceful, if nothing else. *sigh* I feel your pain. The "help" I get sometimes from my kids makes hindrance completely unnecessary. :)

# posted by

MommyTime : June 25, 2009 at 9:29 AM

hehehehehehehe. Just switch the functions of the kitchen and the bathroom and you will be golden.

# posted by

WeaselMomma : June 25, 2009 at 9:47 AM

My coworker (a grown man, mind you) told me the other day that he had put his chew down the bathtub drain while taking a shower...later that day his wife went to take a bath and his chew sorta floated back up into the bathwater...
Maybe they never outgrow this?

# posted by

Gertrude Groggins - : June 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM

BOYZ WILL BE BOYZ!

# posted by

Devri : June 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM

HA! Kills me, it really does. Sam has been known to go pee off the porch, though, not in the tub.

# posted by

Kori : June 25, 2009 at 11:45 AM

You've just proven the maxim that states that necessity is the mother of invention. Or, invention is the necessity of mother.

# posted by

Tom : June 25, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Any excuse to pee in anything but a toilet? ;)

At least you have a good reason for those BBQ skewers :)

# posted by

Miss Lisa : June 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM

I thought everyone peed in the bathtub, saves having to aim.

# posted by

Ian Newbold : June 25, 2009 at 1:36 PM

Well, huh. Right. Of course.

# posted by

Colleen - Mommy Always Wins : June 25, 2009 at 2:13 PM

Oh my. You have your hands full there!

# posted by

Debbie : June 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM

To use on him or the drain? (Sorry... But the thought would probably have crossed my mind, even if the worst I would have done would have been to make him skewer them back up.)

# posted by

AlisonH : June 25, 2009 at 4:07 PM

AHAHAHAAH....Mother of invention, indeed.

# posted by

Briya : June 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Oh man! So this is to what you speak. Boys.

# posted by

James (SeattleDad) : June 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM

What Melisa with one S said. And only if you pay time and a half.
Ok, LMAO over here.

# posted by

SurprisedMom : June 25, 2009 at 6:26 PM

Just throw a urinal cake in the tub and you're all set!

As for the grapes...uhm, we only have one dog and if you drop something it's gone before it hits the floor.

# posted by

Jason : June 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM

All children have a strange, unimaginable logic when they are young. Thankfully, girls usually learn common sense as they grow. Boys, well......

# posted by

Mum-me : June 25, 2009 at 9:09 PM

I don't know what the big fuss is. The logic he speaks makes plenty of sense to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to use the tub.

# posted by

JonnyTam13 : June 25, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Hilarious, as usual. I'd offer to help, but I've been known to pee in odd places myself. Can't wait to meet you IRL at BlogHer. I'm thinking we should make a BlogHer "Yearbook" for everyone to sign. (Just kidding; I'm much too lazy for that!)

# posted by

Mrs4444 : June 25, 2009 at 10:57 PM

Wait. You don't do the 5 second rule because of the dogs? Cause, umm, we have two dogs, and we still do the 5 second rule...

When we can beat the DOGS to the food.

*snickers*

# posted by

Anonymous : June 25, 2009 at 11:42 PM

Please note that grapes and raisins are as deadly as chocolate to dogs.
Grapes cause kidney failure in canines.

# posted by

Anonymous : June 26, 2009 at 8:36 AM

ummm yeah.....monitoring is needed. tee hee

# posted by

Corey~living and loving : June 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM

Well, now I feel a little better. Some monkey is eating in the bathroom. ewwwww.

# posted by

Aunt Debbi/kurts mom : June 26, 2009 at 10:36 PM

Shis-ka-grape? Fruit salad on a stick? You should franchise this.

# posted by

NukeDad : June 28, 2009 at 2:38 PM

MMmmmm sauted grape kebobs

# posted by

Oscar : June 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM

I am cracking UP just imagining you having to use BBQ skewers to pull grapes out of the bathroom drain!!!!!

# posted by

meleah rebeccah : July 1, 2009 at 3:01 PM

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