The Texas Mama

For those of you who are unfamiliar with vegetable dip, this is what it looks like ALL OVER YOUR FREAKIN CARPET!

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Not a good look, you say? Hali disagrees.  Apparently she thought it would both LOOK and SMELL smashing splattered all over the living room carpet.  I believe her technique involved coating her hand in it by sticking it well into the tub of dip, and then shaking and flinging her hand about in a swift downward motion. 

I wouldn’t know.  I was on the phone with my mom.  The cheap corded phone.  Needless to say, Jeremy picked up some carpet cleaner and a cordless phone on the way home from work.  I, in my never ending search for blog fodder, had the foresight and presence of mind to snap a few pictures with my bad camera (Jeremy took my good one to work with him).  So the pics are a little bit on the blurry, low quality side, but I think you get the idea. 

I really don’t know what to do about this one.  Vegetable dip is a savior to me.  Well, WAS a savior to me before this incident.  My darling daughter will eat carrots and broccoli- pretty much anything really, if she can dip it.  Now don’t get me wrong, she eats vegetables at dinner without dip, but with it I can get her to actually SNACK on veggies.  So now what?  Do I ban it?  I can’t do that!  So I think that she will be partaking of dip only under direct supervision of an adult thenceforth.