“Oh, no mama! Losh, eye”- You put what in your eye?

Posted on Apr 15 in funny posts, Life in Evansville, parenting, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

The phone rang, I am on my way to answer it but Everly is ahead of me with her step stool in tow, practically running for the ringing phone.

One day a switch just flipped and she figured her step stool can now get her to anything she desires, regardless of whether or not it is allowed.

Luckily, I got to the phone before she could answer it and it was a client calling me about some website stuff. Good thing she didn’t answer the phone and start jibber-jabbering or hang up on the person.

Now, whenever I am on the phone my calm, quiet little girl disappears. It is repayment for all the terror and grief my siblings and I put our mom though while she was on the phone when we were kids.

Anyway, I am on the phone talking with a client that is having me take a look at something on her website. So I am sitting at my laptop in the kitchen. Everly was playing in her bedroom.

A few minutes later Everly wanders to the kitchen saying “oh, no! losh, losh.” I should add losh is short for lotion and as she comes in to view I can see what the issue is.

She’s opened the bottle of baby shampoo, not lotion and has put it in her hand, her eye ball, through her hair and now she’s standing there vigorously blinking at me with her one eye suddsing from the soap. I mean I can physically see soap bubbling in her eye as she blinks and rubs at the eye all while declaring “Oh, losh, eye… Oh no… Oh man!”.

By this time my client on the phone can hear all that is going on and I sort of explained the situation to her and the phone conversation is cut short so I can manage the mess and tend to the soapy eye. Luckily, it was no-tear baby wash so she wasn’t in unbelievable pain, it was quite the disaster, still.

When we got to the bathroom for eye rinsing and soap cleanup I see that she’s taken the step stool and helped herself to everything on the bathroom counter. Noting to terribly dangerous was present, just her body wash, shampoo and lotion, the sink that she has turned on and some of her hair accessories and such.

Still who wants baby body wash, lotion and shampoo freely squirted all over the bathroom, the child and anything else in the vicinity? Not me!

So now the bathroom counter is totally free of everything. All products have been moved up out of reach. The best part of the whole ordeal would have to be the dried “Something About Mary” hair style Everly had as a result of the pure soap she rubbed through her hair. Yes, I went to great lengths to snap a photo of the hair, not the bubbling eye though.

Doesn’t she just look thrilled? Soap on the hands, face, shirt, hair and recently rinsed eyeball makes for a pouty girl!

Juggling working from home and caring for a toddler has certainly been interesting this last few weeks!