Live and Learn…..

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Last night I came into the kitchen to find bubbles pouring out of the dishwasher.  I knew right away that Maddi had put liquid dishsoap into the washer.

~Sigh~

This is one of those lessons that each of the kids seem to need to learn on their own.  So, I called her in, turned off the washer and handed her a bucket and a cup and told her to start baling out the bubbles and water.  To her credit, she did a great job of cleaning it all up and the dishes were extra clean by the time they got washer properly.

Had to laugh though because it was reminiscent of a movie scene.

Maddi, keeping her sense of humor and blowing the bubbles

Good night~

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   Comment by Clay:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 12:26 am | 

   Man, it seems like a hundred years ago that I got a frantic email from Kateri and Jessie who did the same thing while babysitting at a neighbor’s house. They wanted to surprise them with all the dishes done. Well, we did get almost everything cleaned up but I am sure they were still surprised!

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   Comment by Clay:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 12:27 am | 

   oops I meant to say frantic “call” not “email.”

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   Comment by Alexis:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 12:32 am | 

   I’ve done that before! I also baked chicken patties on a plastic tray- oops. Our oven looked like it had big white stalactites hanging from it. I knew not to bake plastic, but just didn’t realize that the tray was made of plastic- oh well.

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   Comment by Dawn:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 2:36 am | 

   That 2nd picture of Maddie is SOOOOOOO cute!! “Oooppsie… sorry! Tee-hee!”
   She’s so cute! Poor thing!!
   Never a dull moment in that house, huh Jenn??

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   Comment by froglady:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 10:37 am | 

   I, too, used liquid soap one time. What a mess and, yes, a lesson learned. Other bad thing was microwaving russet potatoes until they exploded, even to the point of opening the door.

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   Comment by Peggie:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 11:10 am | 

   Love this kid! No harm done, right.

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   Comment by Missy:
   Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 12:59 pm | 

   too funny! Lesson learned. She always has such a great sense of humor!

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   Comment by Maggie:
   Friday, May 29th 2009 at 12:25 am | 

   too cute

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