I did this because, as mentioned previously, I am really really stupid. No problem - I'll just get Trevor his own bowl of water to splash around in and then he won't bother Audrey. He kept reaching into the water and splashing everywhere and trying to knock the bowl over, which led to Audrey screeching "TREVORRRRRRRR NOOOO!" at a volume fit to wake the neighborhood. So the bowl of water moved out onto the balcony, and Nemo's happy swimming resumed. A gallon of water on the floor later, I realized that this activity would be better suited for outdoors. We started out with the bowl of water in the kitchen because I'm really really stupid.
Could she perhaps have a bath in the middle of the day when she had just had a bath the night before? I said no and suggested instead that we fill a big mixing bowl with water, and Nemo could swim in that. Once we got home, she decided that of course Nemo needed to find somewhere to swim. So I Incredible Hulked it out of the plastic and gave it to her, and she was happy. She responded with the opening salvos of a screaming fit. He was, of course, locked tightly into clamshell packaging and I had no scissors on me. The Nemo-related drama started immediately upon getting into the car after buying it, when Audrey insisted that I open the package and get Nemo out for her to play with. Nemo may be the one thing standing between me and pure, unadulterated happiness. And I have never, never regretted the purchase of any toy as much as I regret that Nemo.
A couple weeks ago, I told Audrey she could choose one toy while we were at Target, and she opted for a water-activated swimming Nemo toy in celebration of the movie Finding Dory. What if it breaks? Will it flood my whole kitchen while I'm at work one day? Will I have to wash things by hand in the interim? How long before they can fix it?īut the dishwasher is fixed now and my crippling depression has been downgraded to "moderately debilitating depression" so everything is on the up and up! :-D
If you've ever had to deal with a dishwasher that is making a funny noise, then you know how stressful it can be. I haven't blogged in months because I've been pretty busy dealing with a few things, including but not limited to: