Lube It Up.

On our way home from the baby shower Saturday night Haylee says from the back seat "turn on the light mom, I can't find my gum!"  Oh great...how in the heck am I supposed to find the missing goo when I'm driving seventy miles per hour down the freeway? 

This child is obsessed with chewing gum and at first it was funny because she was like a two year old side show freak who could chew the same piece of gum for three hours and people would comment "wow, she really doesn't swallow it?"

Yeah well now she wakes up on a Saturday morning, eats her breakfast and immediately asks for her gum.  Um....do ya think it's a problem?  Now I have settled on buying sugar-free and try to convince myself it's okay.

Six months have gone by without incident but the minute we walked in the door, the location of the gum was apparent. The extraction couldn't have come at a worse time, she had been up all afternoon with no nap and she was begging me to put her to bed.  Thankfully, she was easily lured in with pizza and a cartoon.

I called my friend Katie who said the trick was definitely ice or peanut butter but I had no ice and only chunky peanut butter so I figured some good old cooking oil would work.  All I needed was to get it lubed up right?  I'm here to tell you that the canola oil worked within minutes, slid that gum right off the strands of hair.  I will add that washing grease out the next morning is another story.

{Did I say it just slid out with ease?}

David took pictures and laughed hysterically because when she stood up to walk away it was also hanging off her rear end!  Three places in her hair and on her butt...boy was she a mess.