Me: "It's ok, I can throw it in the wash, it'll be fine."
Elsie: "Mom! You know what you need?!?!"
Me: "No, what?"
Elsie: "Oxi Clean! It can get ALL the stains out."
clearly my child has seen too many commercials
I know I had another one I wanted to share, but I can't remember what it was. So I'll throw in this little Elsie story for good measure.
The other day I had taken off my wedding rings and put them on the counter. While I was cleaning up from lunch I saw Elsie pick them up and put them on. "Elsie, please don't play with Mommy's rings, put them back for me ok?" "Ok Mama." But, I didn't watch to make sure she did. A little while later I went to put them back on, but they weren't there. I asked Elsie and she said very confidently, "I was wearing them upstairs. I put them on the toy shelf in the playroom by the little bucket." So I went up there, and nope. No rings. Elsie swore up and down that is where she put them. We picked up all the toys, looked under the toy shelf and quickly checked her room, but no rings. I had to take the girls to dance so I just left it at that.
When we were back from dance we started searching the house. Chris and the girls went back over the playroom again. He dumped out every toy bin in there. I looked all over downstairs, in cabinets and drawers, everyone's backpacks, in my purse, in the pantry, all over the study, everywhere that I could think of, but no rings. When it was time for bed we gave up for the night. The next morning my mom joined me and we went through the playroom yet again. I moved every piece of furniture, every bin of toys, checked the pockets of the pretend aprons, looked through some of the bins in the closet, everything. My mom moved on to Elsie's room, emptying most of her bins (anything that was within reasonable reach), took the sheets and stuffed animals off her bed, moved all her doll furniture, everything. Still no rings to be found. I debated moving to Ryann's room, but figured Thea's was smaller and easier to look through in the time I had left. I looked in the bins on the floor of her closet, under her crib, behind the rocker, through her drawers. Nadda.
Just before I decided I was done in Thea's room, I decided to pull out the glider for good measure. And there they were, underneath the back portion of the glider. Oh Elsie. She runs up there to hide sometimes if she beats me upstairs. When I picked her up from school I told her to guess where I found them. She had no clue. I told her under the glider in Thea's room. Her response? "I wonder why Thea would put your rings under there!" Really Elsie? Really. She still claims she had nothing to do with it. Silly girl.
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