The Toilet

We had a very interesting morning. it started out pretty typical. Ezra up at 7 eating, Annalee comes wandering in asking for a Big Apple (which means uncut). By 7:30 Ezra is fed and headed back to sleep and Jay and I are trying to lay in bed for a few more minutes, and then we hear Jude in his bed "Mama", Mama" and it gradually gets more intense and loud "MAMA!!"...ok...Jay goes and gets him and I hear him now asking for a "bipple"...his version of Annalee's Big Apple...and Jay gets it for him and then comes to lay back down...very short lived. I know that Jude can not be up in the house without lots of supervision, and he certainly is not going to let us lay in bed, about 2 min later in he comes, MAMA, MAMA...and then there is Annalee right behind him...so up we all get. It's not quite 8 am.

I decide to make waffles, we love waffles...and with the coffee Jay made things are going well. Everyone is fed and Jude is still strapped in at the table waiting to get cleaned up...this is when things take a bad turn...Before I can get to Jude he has put his very syrupy plate on his head...and is just holding it there letting all they stickiness seep into his hair...I get it away from him and resign myself to bathing him at 8:30 am if I don't want to deal with sticky hair all day.

So I get Jude in the tub and he's playing for a minute...the next thing I know there is a lot more than toys floating around in the water with Jude...yes for the first time in my life as a mother one of my kids has pooped in the tub, and it's everywhere, all over the toys and all over JUDE...
Get him out, and into my shower to get cleaned up. Then head back to the bathroom where Jay has started cleaning the toys and the tub...I let him off the hook and start doing it myself. I am using toilet paper to clean all the ehemmm, debris...out of the tub, so I can just flush it all when I'm done. Ok great, all done...flush toilet and leave, right?? Right...well umm no, why is the toilet filling up with water, instead of draining out?? I go get the plunger...no use, it's not budging at all...What the heck??? I didn't put THAT much toilet paper in there...

Finally tell Jay the good news, so he comes and tries the plunger...nope no good...what in the world?? He asks me "Are you sure you only put Toilet Paper in there???" Uh yeah, I'm pretty sure it was only toilet paper....

So we try the little wire snake we have...nope, nada nothing.

So we try the big ole nasty snake we have that we've used in pipes under the house...and nope nothing...but scratches left in our potty...

So Jay takes it apart, and we drain all the water and take it outside. We run the snake down the pipe and the clog is definitely not down there.

So we now have a toilet on our deck and we are trying to force water through it with the hose. It's not doing anything but filling up....So we try the small snake again and this time from the bottom, and FINALLY we see water starting to make it's way out, but no big plug of toilet paper or anything else for that matter...

So Jay goes to the hardware store, buys 2 (yes 2, we had a feeling we would need both) new wax seals and a new snake and comes home and puts it all back together again...and we give it a flush...and it fills up AGAIN.

By this point we are becoming very suspicious that at some point either last night or this morning something other than toilet paper was flushed and is now stuck. We decide our children are never allowed to have bath toys again as Jay is once again disassembling the toilet and taking it back outside. As I am confiscating all the little foam letters and my little ponies from the tub, I notice that the little miniature basketball goal we have in there is short one ball...the red ball, and I pass this info on to Jay...

He goes back at it with the wire snake and is just pushing pushing pushing shoving shoving shoving until finally, out pops this....





So I go to Annalee and I say "Annalee did you flush the red ball down the potty?"

And she looks at me with this face...



And says "Yes I did"

Bless her heart she is 3 and can not yet tell a lie...