Thwarting Dental Hygiene

I came into the house the evening the cousins arrived.  “By the way,” Auntie Dot remarked, “you might want to wash your electric toothbrush.”  That’s a weird suggestion, I thought.  Then she explained that shortly before Cousin Katherine came scooting through at a gallop, exclaiming “It tickles!  It tickles!” Sure enough, my electric toothbrush was firmly planted in her mouth  and turned on.  Later she tried out everyone else’s toothbrushes as well.  In addition, her baby brother might have eaten a considerable amount of toothpaste.  He loved those squishy tubes.    Some other mysterious person swiped the entire “spicy” toothpaste tube, and it  disappeared for several days.  Some time after the cousins traveled back home, the toothpaste tube reappeared without warning after I’d stocked up on additional toothpaste.  I never did figure out where it went.

We love our Cousin Adventures!  You just never know what to expect.  Such energy!  Such chaos!  Mayhem keeps everyone on their toes.