Well all of you out there who told me to enjoy my son's fleeting days of immobility were right! Keeping up after a walking toddler is a lot of work, although we've done a pretty good job at trying to eliminate as many "no" items as we can from his path. I've been really surprised at how quickly he's gone from taking just a few steps and collapsing to walking all over the house without a second thought.
Anyway...ever had one of those "Now why in the world would someone do that" moments? My husband and I recently had a huge breakthrough in this question regarding a three switch plate sitting to the left of our sink. The first switch is for the disposal, the second switch is for power to the dishwasher, and the third is for an overhead light. Now why in the world would I need a switch to power my dishwasher on and off?
The breakthrough came a few weeks ago after Jack decided to become BFF with our dishwasher. He absolutely LOVES that contraption and makes a beeline for it every night while we're cleaning up from dinner. Unfortunately, his favorite part about this fun new activity is trying to pull the utensils out of the side bins, including my nice, sharp steak knives. Needless to say, dishes get done very quickly around this place now!
So after we're done loading the dishwasher, Jack likes to help us push the door shut, but it doesn't stop there. He also likes to "help" push the buttons to get the dishwasher started. And those buttons make lots of fun noises and have little green lights that turn on, so why should he stop at one button when he can push all of them? A ha! Enter what I thought was a useless switch to the rescue! At least we can shut the whole thing off when we aren't using it so that he won't be running an empty dishwasher on the speed cycle with an extra heavy rinse.
Forgive me if that seemed a little obvious to everyone out there....I just hadn't seen a need for that switch until now :)
3 comments:
I'm with you. I never would have imagined why there would be a switch for the dishwasher, until I had kids. We don't have a cool switch like that, but what we really need on our dishwasher is a lock. I know they exist, but we didn't think we needed one until we bought a dishwasher that is apparently a blast to open.
Yes! We love that switch! We also started putting our sharp knives on the top shelf just in case. Who knew a dishwasher could be so fun! Now, if we can only keep them this interested once they are capable to fill and empty it unassisted!
Boy isn't that the truth Kami....if only we could hold our kids interest in emptying the dishwasher and pushing the lawn mower around until they get older.
I'm glad to know there are others out there who get equally as excited about something as silly as a dishwasher switch!
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