Child was getting ready fast last night/this morning.
She needed her bathers, and fruit. Her bathers are two-piece because she only grows in one direction and they make economic sense. So we have this long, painful process that should have been either very quick or didn't need to happen at all:
1. Find bathers. (screwed up in small damp pile at the back of her room). Get told to rinse them by your mother because they are brown, and why didn't you put them in the wash on the weekend if they were that brown? Go rinse!
2. Spend 10 seconds rinsing the mud out of the bottom half in a very half-hearted fashion
3. Go to put wet, really muddy bottoms into bag with towel etc. Get told off by your mother for going to get everything else muddy and you call that clean? They're still dark brown!
4. Go to put bottoms in the washing machine. Get told off because a 1:45 cycle is a bit excessive for one very small garment and you don't know how to work the washing machine anyway
5. Wash them for 2 minutes in the sink instead. Lo, they are not dark brown anymore. Hold soggy wet dripping bathers up in middle of kitchen floor for long enough to make a large puddle while noone is looking at you to prove it.
6. Hang GREEN bathers outside. Clean up puddle.
Next day she forgot what she cleaned:
"I'm going outside to get my pajama bottoms!" "You mean your bathers bottoms?" "oh yeah ..."
"when I went outside before to get my bathers top ..." "You mean your bathers bottoms?" "oh yeah ..."
"I need fruit for today!" "Well you've been asking about the figs for the last 3 months, there's a pile of ripe figs on the shelf *points* take those" "ok, I'll go outside and pick some plums then" "FIGS! You wanted FIGS! Take the FIGS!" "Can I take some figs then?"
Argh!
At least she's finally asking to get her warts zapped again. She has 7 (on one toe) and they're obviously embarrassing her - unsurprising given how huge they are. For a while there she refused to even entertain the notion of going back to the doc. The last doc cut them right back with a scalpel before he froze them and all they did was promptly grow about 1cm in a month in retaliation. How the hell do you get rid of warts anyway? Surgery??!?! Freezing them does nothing ...