Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What a "dump!"

This cubby is usually filled with fabric drawers that are filled with toys for my kids, and babysitting kids to play with such as Cars, Little People, balls, magnets, dinosaurs etc.

There is another one in our laundry room also filled with Barbies and Polly Pockets. We also have a pop up hamper that the kids enjoy playing in, it can be a doghouse, or used over their heads like a ghost. One particular morning Cutter came up to me and asked if he could use the laundry basket for his Cars. I agreed, and said, "just don't make a big mess." He agreed and he and his friend that I tend went about playing with the Cars, and the basket. I went up to the kitchen and proceeded to go on with my routine. I could hear them having fun, giggling and enjoying themselves. I continued to work in the kitchen, and upstairs as well. An hour or so later I came downstairs to discover all the fabric drawers empty, from both the family room and laundry room cubbys, and discovered that their contents were now all together in the laundry basket. They certainly had not made a mess all over the floor, but had dumped ALL the toys, from every drawer into the laundry hamper. Now for those of you that are not familiar with Polly Pockets they are little dolls about 3 inches tall, and we have probably over 1000 little tiny clothes and accessories (little rubber shoes about 3/8" by 1/8" etc.) for them. They were now mixed in amongst the little people, dinosaurs, Cars, magnets, Barbies and all of their clothes and shoes etc. In the hamper......So we the boys and I spent the next hour sorting all the toys back into their appropriate bin. Needless to say, that was not nearly as fun as "dumping" them.

3 comments:

  1. Oooh. So crummy. Kids will be kids. You have the patience of Job. See you tomorrow.

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  2. I love 'suprises' like this one, especially the Polly Pocket's. At least you had super helpers for cleaning up!

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  3. Oh the memories. Enjoy them, they grow so fast.

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