Following in her sister’s footsteps

By Moriah on January 25th, 2008

When Madeline was a baby (the crawling kind), she was notorious for picking up gross things off the floor and sticking them in her mouth. It didn’t matter how often I vacuumed or swept, I’d still find her chewing away on lint fuzzies, dirt, crumbs, even a dead fly once.

Yeah. I nearly threw up.

Anyway, Adelaide is taking it upon herself to keep up Madeline’s floor-scrounging legacy. (No dead flies or ladybugs yet though, thankfully.)

When the kids went to bed the other night I swept up all the rice puffs that Adelaide had dropped from her johnny-jump-up tray. Naturally other kitchen crumbs and dirt got swept up as well, and I left a small pile over by the wall. I put the broom away and was planning to just vacuum up the mess and be done with it.

But then I went to bed and forgot all about the dustpile and my vacuuming plans.

Sometime the next morning, wouldn’t you know, I rounded the corner into the kitchen and there was Adelaide, sitting in the middle of the pile, happily munching away on dusty rice krispies.

Ew. But at least it wasn’t a dead fly.