A couple of weeks ago, once we finally had the bathroom upstairs finished, I was able to completely unpack the rest of the items we had in the boxes in our bathroom. Well, there is still one box in the bathroom downstairs but I basically just haven’t figured out what to do with the stuff yet. It’s extra guest towels, robes and just stuff we don’t use very often in general. So along with the rest of the stuff I packed were our two rubber duckies. They may not be the best duckies ever and they can’t swim all that great but they were free and nothing beats that. And apparently Ayla finds them to be very cute because she keeps stealing them.

It first happened about a week ago. We usually keep the bathroom door closed to keep the warmth in (although the heater doesn’t work in there but don’t get started on that subject) and to keep the dog from jumping in the tub or vandalizing things. I forgot to close the door once last week and I heard a crash while I was working in the office. Ayla had knocked over the basket of guest goodies, taken off with a duckie (which I later found in the kitchen) and decided it would be nice to take a nap in the tub. I actually considered giving her a bath at the same time but decided it would be better to wait for back-up before starting that task.

So a few days later, I went to use the bathroom and Ayla followed me in. No big deal, I sat down and she made a bee-line for the ducks. She had her mouth poised and ready to snatch the duck when I made my infamous “aaangh” sound (you know, the one you make when you are warning someone not to do something). So she closed her mouth and made the “What? I wasn’t going to take that” face and left the bathroom.

Since then, the bathroom door has been left open once by hubby who wasn’t fully informed about the duckie mishaps. I went into the bathroom later and noticed that a duck was gone. But where was it? It seems that it decided it would try to take a swim in the kitchen but there was not enough drool on him to let him float. He’s the poor little guy that looks so dirty in the picture since he usually gets stolen.

Sometime this weekend, Ayla will be getting a bath so maybe we’ll let the duckies get in there with her to play. Perhaps they will even help keep her distracted for a little while so we don’t need to use so much peanut butter lol. It will be the first time using the huge tub in the farmhouse to wash her so it should be interesting to say the least. Maybe we should have left tile on the wall in there after all…at least we could wipe it down more easily…