Reunited

I really, honestly promised myself that I wasn't going to take pictures of the "reviving" of Mickey Mouse (the plumbing job) because I knew neither Rod nor Kevin were looking forward to doing it and Rod was so nice to come down and help us out that I really thought I shouldn't take pictures. However... after completely unhooking the commode, Rod came to the conclusion that Mickey was still up in the "piping" (excuse my lack of plumbing knowledge) of the commode itself. So they decided to take the whole commode outside to the garden hose and see if they could "flush" it out with the hose. (Rod didn't originally think a plumbing snake would get it out besides it was 8:30 in the eve.) When they came carrying the toilet out of the bathroom through the house, I knew I just HAD to get a picture when they came back inside with it. After all, it's not every day you see two guys walking through your house carrying your toilet! :) Well, amusing though it was, it worked and we now have a perfectly functioning commode and Mickey is back. We are quite relieved (no pun intended). :) Having that toilet not working seems to have messed Kaelyn up as far as the potty thing. I know it doesn't make sense because she will go to the bathroom in other "strange" places as long as she has her little potty seat "adapter" (for lack of a better word) but because of some of her issues, when something like that changes it just seems to put her whole little world out of whack. Of course to us it just seemed like a very minor deal to have her go in our bathroom and though she would tell us and go some she has had 4 or 5 accidents in the last couple of days and that is about more than she has had the whole time since she was first potty trained. The only thing we could figure out about it (the accidents) is because she doesn't go in our bathroom hardly ever anymore.
Anyway, I did get a couple of pictures. Kevin soaked Mickey in bleach for awhile and cleaned him off. Kaelyn was SO excited to see him again! She kept saying, "Yook! It's Mickey Mouse club house, come inside it's fun inside!" The MM clubhouse theme song says, "It's the Mickey Mouse clubhouse, come inside it's fun inside" so ususally that's what she calls her various Mickey characters - except the one that has brown shoes on - she calls him Mickey Mouse Brown and it took me MONTHS to figure out why she calls him that. Actually, Mickey Mouse Brown is a cross dressing Mickey. John won "him" from the crane game at Wal-mart and Kay instantly claimed him/it. See, it's actually Minnie but a couple of months into her life, she lost her bow that was on her head and her dress is RED - it was a Christmas Minnie. Most of the Minnie's Kay was used to seeing wear pink (on the Mickey Mouse club house show) so without the bow and with the red dress and brown shoes, it somehow became Mickey to her and we can not convince her otherwise. You want to talk about an identity crisis. Anyway... she was and is just thrilled at having her little Mickey back and she instantly sat down with him and his other friends and started playing with them. (The friends were kind enough not to make jokes about Mickey smelling like a sewer when he re-joined them.) :)

This is what you call port-a-pottie :)


Kevin showing the Mickey toy



This was when Kevin first gave it back to her.


She was running all over the house saying, "Your welcome,
your welcome Mickey Mouse club house!"


Reunited with the gang




I included a picture of the cross dressing "Mickey
Mouse Brown"