Down it goes!

Maya has been fascinated lately with what goes down the toilet.  She likes to take bits of toilet paper and flush it down, which I was totally fine with her experimenting with that.  The other day I heard her scream, "BUBBLE GUPPIES!!!!!"  and she came running to me in the next room.  She said, "Bubble guppies down the toilet!"  When I went to the bathroom, sure enough, there was the bubble guppies toothpaste at the bottom of the toilet bowl.  She had been flushing, so I think she wanted it to go down.

The next morning I heard the boys talking about how slow the toilet was flushing.  I went in and saw how slow it was going down.  I looked around the bathroom and noticed that the flosser bag was empty.  I thought that must be what happened and told Brian in the morning.  Thankfully that bathroom is upstairs, and only gets used in the mornings so it actually wasn't clogged.  I knew that we had to get whatever was down there out of it though.

Of course days went by until one morning Connor decided to use the toilet for #2 which clogged the toilet.  After Brian tried to snake the toilet he told me to call a plumber.  I decided instead of spending $200 I would do the job myself.  After turning off the water and letting the toilet drain as much as possible I lifted up the toilet and this is what I saw underneath:

After putting on rubber gloves I grabbed about 100 flossers Maya must have flushed down!!!!!  Brian helped me later that night to put a new wax ring on, and the toilet is back in business.  Thankfully after explaining and showing her the toilet Maya has not flushed anything down again (Knock on porcelain!!!!!!)