Terrible Twosdays!

I have an entire notebook of things my middle daughter has done that defy all kinds of human thought.  So, I think I'll celebrate Tuesday with the Terrible Twos, before she turns three (and hopefully normal!).  The first installment:

Sweetie like things her big sister never did.  For example, if you offered Baby Girl the chance to dig in a sandbox or finger paint, she'd likely look at you like you had lost your mind and go back to quietly coloring or babying her stuffed animals.  Sweetie, however, takes every single chance to get muddy, messy, dirty, gooey, or slimy.  She also has a penchant for squeezing.  Anything.  Toothpaste tubes, bouncy balls, ice cream sandwiches, or the cat.  Whatever.  Put these two tendencies together, and......

Baby Girl and I were taking advantage of Pumpkin's nap time to clean and sort out her bedroom.  Sweetie was playing in her own room and visiting occasionally.  We had a pretty good system going.  Suddenly, I was aware that it had been 10 or so minutes since I'd heard or seen Sweetie.  This is never a good thing, so I went looking for her.

I found her in the bathroom the girls share, her hands covered in Dora the Explorer Strawberry shampoo.  Then she turned around.  And saw that her front was covered in  Dora the Explorer Strawberry shampoo.  Then I walked into the bathroom and saw that the floor was covered in  Dora the Explorer Strawberry shampoo. Like, half of the bathroom floor!  And the toilet lid.  And the bathtub.

Now, this is bad enough, but as I was getting Sweetie in the tub to wash off what had soaked through her clothes onto her tummy, Baby Girl came in to see what was going on. What she did not see was the slime pit on the bathroom floor.  Until her feet slipped out from under her and she landed on her back in the middle of it.

She was totally fine, and I guess we got bath time out of the way early, so that's something.