First of all last Monday I had a friend from my ward over to look at knitting patterns for newborn photography. We were sitting on the couch looking at them on the laptop when I hear Cameron say something about a mess. I look up and he has dumped an entire bottle of calamine lotion on my living room carpet. If you dont know what calamine looks like its very similar to pepto bismal, bright pink, chalky, impossible to get out of carpet! It was my fault for leaving it in the diaper basket but holy cow he is fast! So I tried with all my might to remove it on my own but alas I couldnt get it out and ended up renting a rug doctor. Well since I had it I decided to clean all my carpets thinking I would be able to keep them clean for a while... little did I expect needing it again within a week. But I will get to that later...
Next disaster... One day I was nursing Connor while Cameron was in his room working on going to sleep at nap time. He usually sits up there and talks or plays around for about 20 minutes before he falls asleep. Well I heard a bit of a bang, listened for a minute and he didnt cry or anything and since I was in the middle of nursing and didnt want to get up and check I figured he was ok. When I finished feeding Connor I headed up to be sure he was ok. I walked in and noticed a strong strange yet familiar smell. I looked at him sleeping and noticed his hair was soaking wet, or so I thought. I reached out to feel his head and realized it wasnt sweat like I thought, oh no, it was A&D ointment. The bang I heard was his dresser crashing to the ground. He had pulled out all his dresser drawers and since that made it front heavy it fell forward and everything on top of it, including the A&D fell to the ground. Anything in a tube he thinks is hair gel so he squeezed it out and smeared the whole tube all over his head. When he woke up I washed his hair 6 or 7 times but couldnt get it out. It took days before his hair didnt look like a giant grease ball!
Finally to top it off. One morning exactly a week after I had cleaned all my downstairs carpets Cameron was insisting on coming downstairs before I was quite ready. Usually he just comes down and plays with his cars and waits for me. So I sent him down expecting his to do as usual. Little did I know what he was going to surprise me with. I came down about 5 minutes later to find him in the bathroom with the water running. I peeked in to see what he was doing and he turned around to me and held his hands out and said "Cameron needs to get clean!" Oh dear, paint was all over his hands, clothes and feet of all things! It was smeared all over my white pedastool sink. I said "Cameron, where is the paint? Did you make a mess?" He proceeded to lead me over to a corner in the living room and said "Right here, Mama." As if he were proud of the mess. I saw globs of finger paint on my carpet! He apparently figured out how to open the baby proof locks on the drawers in the kitchen and decided it would be fun to squirt big globs all over. So, off to get the rug doctor again in a week. Im thinking I should just invest in one!
What next? 
3 comments:
Connors belated 3 month pictures are so cute. He does look like a happy baby. Cameron's adventures were so fun to read about and know that my days of messes like that are over....I think I almost miss them!
Oh dear! Two year olds are a handful. I highly recommend investing in a carpet cleaner. It's the best investment we have ever made! Good Luck.
I love the hair!!! Silly boy, he is much like his Mother was at that age.
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