The One Where I Admit To The Utter Filthiness Of My Toilet

Tonight as I was getting Liam ready for bed (which he does in our bathroom…I’m not entirely sure why except that one night he asked to do it that way and I didn’t feel like putting up the effort to keep him in his own bathroom and then I just never moved him back into the hall) we had quite the conversation.

Last week our toilet had reached such epic heights of dirtiness that when my mom was here taking care of the kids on Monday night while we were at preschool orientation she ended up cleaning it.  Because that’s who she is.  Wow, right?

For at least a week prior to this, each night as Liam took his final pee of the day he would make a huge dramatic scene about how “SUPER DISGUSTING” our toilet was.  I couldn’t argue with the kid.  I don’t know if there are health codes for inside people’s homes but if there are I’m fairly certain we had broken many of them with that toilet alone.  And let’s not even get started on the state of our kitchen..but I digress (as I am (obviously) wont to do).

Anyway.

So each night since it was cleaned Liam goes in there and makes an equally huge dramatic scene about how clean the toilet is and how wonderful his Gran is for cleaning it for us.  Tonight after the usual discussion about the state of cleanliness in which we currently find our toilet we had the following conversation.

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Liam:  Mama?  Gran is a hero.

Shannon:  I agree.  What kind of hero do you think she is?

Liam:  Well Mama, she’s a toilet cleaning superhero!  She flies around to people’s houses and fixes ALL the disgusting toilets!

Shannon:  Not quite, but I’ll agree that she’s *our* toilet superhero.

Liam:  Mama?  When I grow up to be an old man I’m going to be a toilet superhero.  I’ll start at our neighbor’s houses and then I’m going to fly all over the world and clean up people’s toilets so they’re not disgusting so that little boys only have to use nice, clean toilets!  No more SUPER DISGUSTING toilets anywhere ever again!  That will be fantastic!

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This started out as a way to record a funny conversation I had with Liam but after revisiting his line about little boys only using nice, clean toilets I’m fairly certain that I need to stop right now and go clean the other toilet…