A Science Experiment: To Flush or Not To Flush

Zoe isn't a breakfast fan.  She just doesn't like to eat until she's been up for awhile.  Typically during the week her and Grandma have things to do.  We like to make things that she can take with her for breakfast that she'll eat.

One of her favorite things is mini muffins.  Usually on Sunday evenings we make a couple dozen mini muffins for the week.  We like to have one right after they get out of the oven and cool a bit.  Sunday evening N was cleaning the tub in Zoe's bathroom.  She wanted to help.  She sprinkled the cleaner in the tub and N started to scrub.  She was ticked she couldn't scrub too.  I bribed her with a mini muffin.  Don't judge.  A tired, pre-schooler meltdown makes a mom do drastic things.

She insisted that she take it into the bathroom so she could "keep daddy company."  A few moments later N heard a plop and "oh no!"  Zoe dropped her mini muffin.  Not just anywhere in the bathroom, but it was a direct shot into the toilet.  Zoe really wanted to get it out, but I told her she needed a new one. 

N thought it best if we wait a little bit, let the muffin get soggy and then flush it.  After all the scrubbing and all my eating of mini muffins, we both totally forgot.

On Monday morning my mom came over to watch Zoe and had to use the bathroom.  She took the Dora lid off the toilet to find a jumbo muffin staring at her.  Not sure if she should reach in and try to get it out or what, she decided that flushing was the best option.

Fortunately the mini-now-jumbo muffin went down okay, but it didn't really ever dissolve.  If you ever drop your mini muffin in the toilet while you watch a man clean your bathtub, because really, what's better than mini muffins and watching your man do some chores.  Maybe if you had just come from an all-day spa treatment and then had the muffin and chore-watching.  That could just be me.

I digress.  The real moral is:  muffins are like sponges in the toilets of life.  They don't dissolve, they just get bigger.

I'm not sure that's a moral or just something I hope you never encounter.  If you have to go, you don't want to have to decide if that muffin is too big to flush.