My Lil' Helper

Ok, so yesterday I took a day and cleaned house. It's amazing to me how fast Ian picks up on what I am doing! I was busy vacuuming and not paying a lot of attention to what he was up to. I knew he was in the bathroom and in the back of my mind I realized that this wasn't such a good idea. However, I figured I wanted to quick get the vacuuming done and he was out of the way so I would keep working. After a bit though, I thought I should check on him. He was cleaning the toilet for me... I found him up to his elbows in the toilet water with a sponge 'cleaning'. The water in the bowl was a bit cloudy but I figured this was because of the scrubbing powder that was left on the sponge. So I shooed him out of the bathroom and flushed the toilet. The water in the bowl started rising, and rising and I'm thinking, "Oh no, what did he put down the toilet!" So I reach in and find a large bar of soap which keeps slipping through my fingers and eventually gets lodged far enough up the pipe that I have no chance of grabbing it. I wait for the toilet to stop flushing thinking I would have better luck when the water wasn't pulling on it. No chance. I can feel it and I try to get a knife thinking I could stab it and pull it back that way... no go. So we can't use the toilet off our bedroom until the soap dissolves... good thing we have a second bathroom and I don't have to make a really embarrassing phone call to maintenance! Thank you Ian! Such a good little helper. I just have to laugh.