Vaseline Debacle

OK. So my husband and I are sitting in the living room watching t.v. and our son is running back and forth down the hallway like a half crazed marathoner. He's got some toys in the kitchen so we don't worry too much when its been a 2 or 3 minutes since we've seen him streaking down the hallway.

We are stupid.

My son comes down the hallway COVERED. in. Vaseline...the walls, his hair, my brand new bedroom furniture have just been greased to a nice shine by my 15 month old's grubby little hands. Those hands by the way are COMPLETELY covered in giant globs of Vaseline and poor baby, looks like he's about to cry because he can't keep his fingers from slipping on each other!

We don't know whether to laugh or get upset. (We ended up laughing, by the way!). So we clean him off..and people Vaseline is NOT easy to get out of a squirming toddlers hair. So lots of soap and water and 30 minutes later we're cleaning off our furniture. Of course we told him to show us where he got it, then told him no, that its not yours to play with blah blah blah...

The next day I find him trying to get the Vaseline out again. I have now hidden the Vaseline and consequently can't find it. Go figure :)

Of course we are laughing about it now. What parent couldn't laugh about it, I think its part of parenting being able to laugh and make jokes about stuff like that. Otherwise we'd all be in mental institutions and our parents would be raising our kids. Anybody else shiver a little bit at that lovely image??? If we can't be in a padded room, we might as well be laughing at the stuff that could put us there!