4/12/07

If I Could Bottle This:

If this isn't the finest birth control--I don't know what is. Lorelei without a doubt is my trouble maker. She's a sweetie and a darling-but she has found more ways to be a weasel than Mic ever did..

I was working in another part of the house, when Micci came running in, "Lorelei's all green!" I sigh, expecting Lorelei covered in Sharpie tattoos. All part of the circus that is my home (she has a knack--just like for finding candy--for finding Sharpie markers).

I come in to the kitchen to find this:

Lorelei had gotten into the McCormick Food Dye. I should have known better--it was much too quiet.

While I ran her a bath, Lorelei proceeded to run around the kitchen chanting, "Baby Feet! Baby Feet!">

I dumped her in to the bath and took this picture: a circle in my kitchen.

I came back after spraying down the kitchen with cleaner (so it wouldn't dry completely). The water was green. I had to fill the tub twice. And Lorelei still has traces of green, blue, red, and yellow dye.

I spent the next hour scrubbing Lorelei and my kitchen floor. But my goodness (I can hear my mom now), the floor did need a good scrubbing.

Sigh.

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OMG! I feel your pain. Oh I hope that dye comes out.

Some days you laugh so you don't cry.

Lorelei is a cutie. :-)

By  Karen, at 6:52 PM  

her new name is offically the swamp monster!

-jess

By  Anonymous, at 9:30 PM  

Oh my goodness!
She certainly was 'all green'.
Did it come off the floor?
Years from now you will be so glad you documented this. It will be a funny story. Really.
Then again, what do I know? I only work with kids. I don't have my own.

By  Miss Scarlett, at 11:59 AM  

I've got to admit that my first thought was "thank God my kids didn't think of that!" What a nightmare...

I hope it all came out okay and that you've got some uneventful time ahead to recover.

By  Michelle, at 12:10 PM  

Yes, the green is off the floor and counters--I had a green tinge to my feet for a few days. Lorelei was a faint green herself for about two days after wards--even after an additional bath when she got into my lipstick the very next day.

My mom remarked that it sure is one way to Go Green. LOL.

Now it is funny--actually two hours after it was funny--I am just lucky that it wasn't on the carpet--then I don't think it would EVER have been funny.

By  Birdwell, at 2:55 PM  

My kids would SO have done that if they knew what and where food dye was. Wow. I hope everything came clean--I notice she didn't seem to get any in her hair, which is good, because it does dye hair.

By  AlisonH, at 1:58 PM  

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