Brown

**DISCLAIMER**
If you do not have children or have a weak stomach or are deciding whether or not to have children... you probably shouldn't read this post. And if you've been wondering about my parenting skills from the last couple posts, this one doesn't help my repertoire.

It all started when I wanted to have a "Good Mommy Moment" and made chocolate pudding with Aiden before his nap. I told him that as soon as he woke up, the pudding would be done. So I put Aiden and Sam both down for their afternoon naps. It didn't last long. First, Aiden never went to sleep so I got him out after an hour or so. I gave him his pudding at the table, determined to keep a close watch on him so he'd keep his pudding in the kitchen. Then Sam started screaming. I ran upstairs to find him crying in his crib... with sticky, brown poop EVERYWHERE... on all the rungs on his crib, on the sheets, on his blanket, on his stuffed animals, on his bottle, all over his legs and back, in his hair, and on his face. Gross. Turns out he had crawled right out of his too large pants while trying to go to sleep and had a blowout. Big time. By the time I had him cleaned up, his crib completely disinfected, and the sheets bundled up to be taken downstairs, Aiden had finished his chocolate pudding. And guess what. There was more brown for me to clean up.

Moral of the Story:
Never put your baby to bed with no pants on or pants that will come off easily. And never leave a toddler unattended with a bowl full of chocolate pudding.

The End

Comments

Shauna said…
That's it, Rog and I are never having kids. Oops... I think it's a little too late. :)
Unknown said…
Amen! I have found Isca standing in her crib totally pants and diaper-less a time or two!
Liza said…
Madi actually undoes the velcro and removes her diaper on purpose! But she has not yet figured out how to remove pants, thanks goodness....
Cecily said…
We had some friends that cut off the feet of footie jammies and then put it on backwards. I don't think baby arms are even long enough to reach the zipper, even if they were smart enough to figure it out.

The "brown" incidents are the ones I usually don't tell Tommy about. He tends to feel the need to re-clean everything instead of doing the dishes. So I do the dishes on top of cleaning everything. Good luck when potty-training time comes around!

And by the way--to add to my novel of a comment here--no one is questioning your parenting! I wish I had your sense of humor!
Michelle said…
That was hilarious!!! I have had experiences coming in and finding a child diaperless in bed. One thing we have done is to use cloth diaper pins and pin the diaper together so it can't be undone. That probably won't help with too big pants, but once they learn how to work the velcro it does help!

I am sure Aiden loved your pudding though! And at least that mess was probably better smelling. :)
McKae said…
Wow... I think you just scared us for at least another decade. ha
Miss Tamra said…
Ha Ha Ha! Love it! All in the day of life as a mommy. . .
Susan said…
I can only imagine how much fun those messes were to clean up but you have a great sense of humor! We have had a few "poopy" events in our life as well! Got to see some of your family in Logan this weekend! A real positive to the sad event. Oh, and you are a GREAT mommy!
Tara said…
That happened to my sister in law with her little guy, but she found him EATING the poop, too. It sounds like, hopefully, your little guys had it figured out which brown stuff was edible and which was not. No fun!

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