Our bedtime routine is somewhat comparable to a Formula One pit-stop where everyone rushes at lightning speed to get a job done, except that in our case, the whole Ferrari team is suddenly hit with a bad case of food poisoning. Lightning jolts of pain strike their bodies into submission and everything gets a little haphazard. That’s our bedtime routine.
While I rush to get Tee’s stuff ready for school (Oh, there’s so much to do – we have a communications book to fill, plus her daily reading log book which sometimes I go ‘shit! I haven’t read her today’s book yet!’ The school sends home a book everyday that we must read to the child on top of the library books we get to borrow from the book room, pack her bag, get her uniform ready, plan breakfast, just to name a few last minute school preps.), the Hubs rushes her through her milk while reading her a bedtime story which she will ask for repeats. Every single night. Not one, not two, not three.
As soon as the cheerleading for milk to finish ends, the impatient harps for a quick teeth brushing, washing of face, hands and feet is battled, then into jammies and lights out. More often than not, Tee scampers out to put her own PJ’s on whilst the Hubs clears and cleans our washroom from the splashes of water and toothpaste off the surfaces. I told you it was a battle in there!
Last night was no different. And coincidentally, just as I was commenting to Health Freak Mommy about how Tee sometimes refuses her diaper at night so we have to secretly put a diaper on her after she sleeps, even if it means putting it over her panties, the over her panties thing thankfully never had to happen yet.
This morning when again our mad F1 routine began at 7.30am, the Hubs discovered that Lord of all things, there was a river of a panty INSIDE her diaper. The cheeky brat had dressed herself last night and none of us had checked, assuming all was OK since she did it every night with success. I mean, if the girl is all dressed and under the covers all ready for bed, we are grinning ear to ear and out the door, baby!
When asked why she didn’t take her panties off last night when she put her diaper on, she laughed with a lot of nerve, “I tiwicked you, I twicked you, hahaha!!!” (twicked = tricked).
Not knowing whether to laugh along or tell her sternly not to do it again, the Hubs took the wet panty away with a grunt, pincers and a bucket, for a wash and soak.
Well, now we know. She is definitely NOT ready for night time sleep without a diaper.
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That was hilarious. Your hubs is one helluva daddy and a neat & cleanliness freak too hor? Lucky lucky you!
Tee is SO cheeky!
Yeah, my husband could win Daddy of the Year Award hands down. My friends can’t believe how much he does compared to their husbands. Then their husbands get annoyed with him for spoiling the market, hahaha! He is from Boarding School so you know those types tend to be neat freaks – drives me nuts. Not that I’m a complete slob but I like a certain planned chaos.