Flood in our basement

Maybe I am exaggerating just a bit, we didn't have a real flood, just a little mishap this week that involved Jack, lots of toilet paper, the roll for the toilet paper, and the toilet! This all happened Monday morning, I was upstairs getting Ava dressed when Samuel comes up and informs me that Jack is doing something that I am not going to be happy about! I thought oh great what can that kid be doing now?! I run downstairs and he was in the bathroom(which is never a good thing) he had taken a roll of toilet paper off the roll, threw in a bunch of toilet paper and the roll, took the cardboard roll back out, now all wet with toilet water. and then ended by flushing the toilet. I looked at the toilet and nothing seemed to be unusual so I shut the door and told him to not do that again. I needed to get a few things at the store so we all piled into our minivan(thank goodness none of the Toyota recalls were on their minivan!) and hed to Wal-Mart.

We come home fix lunch for all of us (Jake usually comes home everyday for lunch) we eat, Jake goes back to work. I go downstairs to get the boys bear and dog and notice the floor is wet in the little hall by the bathroom. It's not just a little wet but really wet. I then go into the playroom to get their animals and notice that the floor is wet all along the wall by the bathroom. It's not just a little wet but really wet and a couple feet out from the wall. I then go into the bathroom and see that the toilet is overflowing from the bowl and now has about 1 inch of standing water!! I have to turn off the water to the toilet and get a cup and start pouring some of the water out of the toilet bowl so it doesn't continue to flood the bathroom! I then take every towel we own and begin soaking up all of the water on the floor.. I call Jake and he couldn't come home right then but came home about 30 minutes later with a huge fan! We then have the fun task of cleaning up our little mischievous boys mess!!

Even with all the things Jack does, gets into, breaks, he makes our lives ever so interesting and entertaining! Here are just a few pictures after I soaked up the water in the bathroom! In the blue container are all the toys/stuffed animals that were on the floor in the playroom that now had to be washed/cleaned off! The pick and green stuff on the floor was play-doh that I am sure my Jack got on the floor as they were playing with it earlier in the day!