What is this, you ask? Well, let me tell you...A few days ago, we noticed that it was smelling really funky in the girls' bedroom. In fact, it smelled an awful lot like pee. Obviously this is NOT a good smell. We kept washing things in batches and trying to figure out what was lingering... did somebody pee on the wood? On the floor? On a blanket? On a stuffed animal? This was NOT a pleasant task, sniffing around... :(
We were nosing around again last night, after yet another batch of laundry, when I noticed a bunch of oddly shaped things beneath their beds, between the cracks. Being an entomologist, my first freakish thought was that they were just the right size as (*shudder*) cockroaches. And then... I knew what they were. And yes, this is what smelled like urine!
Yup - you guessed it - somebody had been spitting out their Flintstone multivitamins and "hiding" them under the bed. And I knew immediately who the culprit was!
We removed 14 vitamins from under the bed - yes, it took us that long to figure out what was going on - and then went to confront the girls, who were enjoying a leisurely bath. First, I apologized to Mika for thinking she had peed somewhere in the room. Then I asked them who had hidden the vitamins under the bed, even though I knew who did it. Ha ha! The confession came spilling out, from... (drumroll)... Marika!
Apparently, according to the girls, after we switched bottles sizes (same brand), the vitamins didn't taste good. Did I mention that I had found 4 of these vitamins in our closet floor a few days ago? And are you still wondering why it took us so long to figure out what Marika was doing???
After dinner, they are told to go wash their hands. Sometimes they take longer than usual but we didn't think about it, because they love to sing in front of the bathroom mirror or mess around in the study before they return. Never, in a million years, did we think anybody was running upstairs to ditch the vitamin. Although... I did catch Marika sprinting upstairs a few days ago, right after dinner. When I asked her what she was doing, she said, "I was just checking on my bed!" Yes, I grew suspicious, but still did not think she was spitting out the vitamins!
*sigh* Because of this debacle, I took one of their vitamins last night. It didn't taste bad, it tasted just as I remember as a child, when my friend gave me one. Yeah, I grew up in a time when parents (at least Asian ones) didn't give their kids Flintstone vitamins.
(Hey, is this why I'm so short?!)
So why do Flintstone vitamins smell like pee after they've had contact with water/saliva? Is it so parents can be alerted to the odor and know that the kids are spitting them out?!
Marika and I are headed off to Target this morning to get "new" vitamins... *sigh*...
