Cinderelly, Cinderelly

Remember the song from the movie?

Well, that has been my life this week.  On my knees tirelessly scrubbing (aka using my lovely Bissel Little Green Machine!!) about 3000 yellow heal and footprints off of the carpets and floors of the house. It's like someone took an over-sized yellow Bingo bopper to the place!

You see, Leighton was doing some art in his room the other day and dropped his little yellow ink pad on the (carpeted!) floor.  This one:

But he didn't notice. Nor did he notice stepping on it.  Or feeling his foot getting wet or sticky or anything out of the ordinary.  Nope.  Didn't notice.  And this was not just a small spot on his foot the size of the tiny ink pad.  Nooooo.  His whole foot.  The bottom.  The sides.  And it was even seeping up between his toes when we removed his sock to have a look.  How, I ask, does one not even notice this occurring?  And how, I ask, does one foot step on one tiny little ink pad so many times and for so long that an entire foot can be saturated?  And how, I ask, does one tiny little ink pad have enough ink in it to provide a lovely yellow dot road covering the floors of the entire house?

It's actually pretty comical to see the astronomical number of dots.  And it's pretty interesting to have the ability to pretty much trace Leighton's steps around the house as he walked from his room to the kitchen and back to his room and then to see Roy in the big room and then to his room and then to our room (he ran during this portion - the dots were much further apart!) and then across the playroom carpet to the kitchen once more.  It was here and then that I made the entire family freeze because I realized I was surrounded by yellow dots while I was cooking.  And I was not cooking anything fluorescent yellow.  Nor was I splashing it all over the floor.  So, we investigated and traced the mess (artistic creation?!) to Leighton's feet and to that tiny little ink pad.  This one:

And just in case you are reading this - I know who you are, oh lovely gift giver of the tiny yellow ink pad!  I know where to find you, too.  Consider yourself lucky that you live on another continent and I can't invite you over to introduce you to my Little Green Machine that is magically getting out all the Little Yellow Dots!