Oh. My. Goodness.

I wish I had my camera to take a picture of what Missy did last night.

For those of you that don't know, she is a major night owl. Now, where Goober has school in the mornings and Eb tends to rise early too I have to have a pretty early bedtime for all of them. I really can't justify letting her stay up while making her brothers go to bed early. In the next couple of weeks this will change due to school being out, I plan to move their bedtime back quite a bit, but if I do that too early Goober will be a major grump due to having to get up early too.

So, anywho...

Missy usually just plays quietly in her room until she finds it within her to actually go to sleep. I'm fine with this because she isn't causing any problems and if she isn't tired what can I do?

Well, for the last couple of nights she has been leaving her room.

First is was just to use the potty and get a drink. Ok, I can handle that. The next night I noticed that she had been playing in the master bathroom. Probably getting a drink (cause there IS a cup in there) but it turning into playing with the water a little. Not a huge mess, just kind of amusing mostly.

Well, last night was a bit different.

EB was having a hard time going to bed (probably because of a late nap due to going to the zoo). Goober opted to try going to sleep on the couch cause EB was so noisy and Goober was tired and they share a room. So after a while of EB hollering I brought him downstairs with Jer and I. After a little while I figured he should be getting tired and I should try to get him back to bed again.

I came upstairs and found Missy curled up on the chair next to the couch where Goober was asleep. I told her to go back to her room and tucked her in again. EB fell asleep shortly thereafter.

About an hour later I decided to go upstairs (I can't remember why) and smelled something sweet. Hummm. I figured it had to be something Missy had gotten into, cause she was the only kid awake.

I found that she had gone into my bathroom and gotten into my thick expensive lotion and squeezed it into the cup next to the sink (and a little on the wall). And where is the bottle? hm. oooooooooh kay. messy and a little irritating, I can still handle it but I should probably talk to her about it. I glance in her room and don't see her....

BUT I do see that she has coated her stuffed pink puppy in my lotion as well and gotten it ALL OVER her carpet. Grrrr. Now I'm mad. I also find not only my big expensive, now empty, lotion bottle on her dresser, but also a small empty baby lotion bottle as well. Double Grrrr. I go looking for the little twink. When I double back to her room I find her curled up on her bed with lotion ALL OVER HER. Gah.

Now, you have to consider that my kids don't usually make these kinds of messes. They have never written on the walls with crayons, or markers. They are usually really conscious of big messes. So I'm not used to this, AT ALL. So I haul her downstairs to dad so that he can keep an eye on her while I proceed to TRY to clean up the mess.

Yeah, didn't really come out of the carpet that well (probably have to shampoo that), and who knows if the puppy was savable..... it's still sitting in the washer waiting for me to check on it.

What I wouldn't have given for my camera!