Its Tuesday morning. I get up before everyone else to take a shower. Once out of the shower I start waking up the troops. It takes a couple of tries to get them moving. Calvin heads downstairs to have a waffle, that boy can't go without breakfast first thing in the morning. Ellery on the other hand can't get her self out of bed ..ever. So while I'm yelling down the hall for her to get up, I take the towel off my head, grab my comb and swipe it right down the center of my hair. I immediately notice that there is stuff in my hair, so I set down the comb, move closer to the mirror and with my fingers, I grab at the clumps of stuff in my hair. It is sticky and greasy and I know what it is immediately ... Vaseline. I started screaming...this get's Ellery moving pretty darn fast, she is now standing in the doorway staring at me with wet hair and gobs of vaseline in my hair. She says to me, 'Oh yeah I saw him messing around with that last night. He was supposed to be brushing his teeth, but he just swiped his tooth brush under the water and then started messing around with the jar of vaseline and some q-tips.' So I text a co-worker and tell her I will be coming in late, as I have vaseline in my hair! So there I am bent over the tub, washing my hair again. Then I tried blowing drying it and the center section of my hair is greasy and nasty and stuck to my head. So I think how in the H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS am I going to get this out of my hair. So I run down stairs, past Brian who is laughing at the whole situation and Calvin who is eating breakfast claiming innocence. So back upstairs I go and scrub my hair with Dawn dish soap. I guess if it works for those sea animals in oil spills, it's got to work for vaseline in hair. AND IT DOES. It works, it all comes out, so other than my hair feeling like straw, I am only about 15 minutes late for work.
So yep, my son, ran/dipped my comb in the tub of vaseline while he was 'supposed' to be brushing his teeth. I realize now he requires more supervision while getting himself ready for bed and I need to double check anything I use in the bathroom. Ugh, it makes me wonder how many of my items have been dipped or dropped into the toilet...okay I don't even want to know.
