I'll push myself up through the dirt and shake my petals free
I'm resigned to being born and so resigned to bravery.
~Dar Williams

Sunday, April 20, 2014

The Lily Chronicles: Trouble with Toilets

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The Lily Girl, awake and chipper at 2:30 am.  Every night.

Preface:
Most of you are familiar with the fact that my second-born child is possessed.  In the womb she entertained herself by kicking me constantly, stretching into a fully horizontal position, doing somersaults,  jumping up and down on my pelivc floor,  and/or positioning herself on top of my right ovary (inducing massive levels of pain… think broken femur) for the majority of her stay.

Since arriving Earth-side, she has found myriad other ways to while away her time.  Read:  she is the most mischievous angel-straight-from-heaven you ever did meet.  I’ve tried to capture many of these moments on camera so that I might someday say, “Dearest daughter, you owe it to me to take care of me in my old age because LOOK at all these shenanigans I put up with.”  I thought I might make a blog post about her endeavors of evil; however, upon compiling the collected photos last night, I discovered that I had well over eighty – far too many for one post.  So without further ado, I bring you The Lily Chronicles.  These posts are dedicated to the Children Jones, who delight in Lily’s wickedness.
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It’s unclear whether Lily is aware of why toilets were actually invented, but she has found several alternative uses for the objects:

A swimming pool:

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A reading chair:

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A washing machine:

toilet 2

A toy box:

toilet 4

And in addition to misusing toilets, she seems to think plungers make perfect walking sticks. 

toilet 6

There is some evidence that she understands the measure of the commode’s creation.  The other day I walked into the bathroom to find this scene:

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Me: What’s that, Lily?

Lily:  Bunny go pee. 

She then closed her eyes and nodded several times, as is her way when she knows something to be true.

2 comments:

Kimberly said...

I will enjoy these chronicles very much. :)

Cami said...

Lily's potty shenanigans are near the top of Calvin's favorites. Giggles and giggles from this post.