The Big Cleanup

One evening last week, mummy was shocked to find both my eyes red and swollen. We did not go anywhere and had spent the whole day at home. After just one hour of not seeing me (she went to cook dinner), she discovered that I had developed some eye irritation when she came out from the kitchen.

Itchy tiny bumps around both eyes

Luckily, the bumps and redness were cleared within 10 minutes without any medication. Mummy just lightly splashed both my eyes with water and patted them dry.

Unsure about what has caused this, clean-freak mummy decided to do what she does best... cleaning! Besides cleaning and sanitizing the floor and sofa (she does this every single day), she also made me wash my toys. The main suspects were the toys that I have been playing with that day...

We washed the alphabet foam mats (we wash this quite often)

We washed the MegaBloks (mummy used to wash this very often when I was younger)

We also dismantled all my Lego creations and washed them brick by brick... thousands of them (from 2 out of my 3 sets)!

Spread out for drying...

Mummy: Wah! So many Legos!

Me: It's so MUCH Lego, mummy. There's too much, it's uncountable.

Mummy: Yeah, you're probably right haha.

Since the cleaning mood was still on, mummy decided to wash my soft toys as well (although they were all kept away). This is actually Part 2 of the long-delayed Part 1 back in April 2009! My poor furry pals had a crazy spin in the washing machine today. Although some of them had labels stated "Surface wash only", mummy didn't care at all and dumped everything in.

These fellars were so big that they could only go in 2 or 3 at a time...

Wanna go for a spin? Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Hang them up and say thank you to the scorching sun and searing heat!

The Big Bath

Mummy has been waiting to do this since this day. Taking advantage of the current burning, scorching and searing hot weather, she decided to dump everything into the washing machine today...





In went all the little ones... including those with labels stated "Surface wash only". There were too many of them for a single wash so mummy had to divide them into 2 loads.




Within just a couple of hours, they were completely dry... and clean!



As soon as they were brought in from the drying rack, I started arranging them in a square like this...




Finally... no more "ah-choo, ah-choo!" interrupting my teddy bear picnic *grin*

Now, mummy scratches her head when she thinks about how to wash the big fellars... (to be continued, in Part 2)