idea emergency

A goes through phases with television.  She only likes one show at a time.  When she was about 18 months old, she liked the wonder pets.  She was allowed one show daily; she watched that 1 show until we had seen every episode about 227 times.  Then she moved on to the fresh beat band.  Since there were only about 16 of these made, B and I can say every line to every episode where Kiki, Marena, Twist and Shout sing their way through some stupid scenario.  About a month ago, I couldn't take "It was a great day" anymore and I turned on the Imagination Movers.  This show fits the criteria of being under 30 minutes, having music, and having somewhat of a plot.  The format consists of a  problem, 4 guys and a mouse brainstorm ideas to fix the ridiculous problem, 3 or 4 trials of ideas including one where they travel to a "room" in the idea warehouse, and then finally, the idea emergency is solved.   

Since watching this show, whenever we come across a problem, A yells out "idea emergency" and we try to solve the problem.  Tonight, we had a very odd idea emergency.  We had a frog in our toilet. 

I was giving K a bath and happened to look over to our toilet where I saw a large green lump.  My first thought was EEEWWWW, who didn't flush the toilet.  Then, it was even more gross when the large green lump moved.  That's right, a frog somehow climbed through the plumbing system to our third story bathroom and was hanging out in the toilet.  So, in my best sing song voice... we have to get the frog out of the toilet, we have to do it without hurting the frog.  For that we need some good ideas. Let's brainstorm.  Idea 1) A ran and got a box where we keep ivory soap.  nope, too small and I'm not touching the frog to get it in there.  Idea 2)She tried to go get the fish net for our aquarium.  Good idea, but we couldn't find it. Idea 3) Daddy saved the day with a coat hanger and a tupperware.

Gross idea emergency solved as the frog was safely transported out our front door.