The Toilet

So, 2 days ago we had a little problem with one of the toilets here in my in-laws house. We didn't know it was clogged up until my poor little sister in-law got the flu and threw up all in it. When she tried to flush it, it wouldn't flush and got really backed up. After much plunging by my mother-in law and brother in law (Nate), the toilet still wouldn't give and remained clogged for the rest of the night. We meant to put up a sign on the door or the toilet warning those that entered to not use the it, but I guess we forgot because the next morning someone used it (with a #2) and found that the toilet was about to over flow when flushing it! Yikes!! So Carla called her dad (who is such a great handy-man) yesterday to come help us women out! Because both of our husbands are out of town, we had no one but Grandpa Chapman to come do our dirty work and boy are we grateful for him!

So after 45 min of plunging it with a heavy duty plunger, he was a bit baffled as to what could be clogging it up. So he sent Carla to Home Depot to buy a toilet auger- surely that would do the trick, right?? Wrong. After about 15 min of using that without luck, Grandpa Chapman took the toilet completely apart, unbolted it from the floor and continued using the toilet auger to see what would pop out. After a little while, I was called into the bathroom to see what was clogging up our toilet and this is what I saw...




....a little ball that our innocent little Ethan had shoved down the toilet hole! I have to admit that we were all laughing pretty hard! I then remembered that the day before (when the toilet became clogged) I was looking for Ethan and found him playing in the bathroom toilet with his arms soaked up to his shoulders- yes I know I should watch my kid more carefully sometimes. But I didn't think at the time that he had shoved a ball down the toilet!! So anyways, after they found the ball, Grandpa put the toilet back together, bolted it to the ground again and we were all expecting the toilet to work now. Problem solved, right?? Nope, not yet! We still couldn't flush the toilet. So Grandpa took the auger to it again, but still no luck. He then proceeded to take the toilet apart again and after a few minutes we found this...

Yep! We found ball #2!

I was dying! I still can't believe that he shoved two balls down the toilet and that was the source of all that trouble they went through! We guess he just liked seeing the balls disappear down the hole, that's fun right?! I felt so bad for Grandpa Chapman who spent 2 plus hours over here doing nasty, dirty work and left with the bottom half of his pants soaked with who knows what all because of my little Ethan's curiosity, but I guess he wouldn't be a little boy if he didn't shove something into the toilet at some point in his life! Anyways, I thought that that story was too good to not blog about so I hope y'all enjoyed! Hopefully I won't find Ethan playing in the bathroom by himself any time soon. If so, we will be sure to check the toilets for missing objects!