By Heather O.
Just a thought.
And if I DO let her play with the toilet, perhaps it would be better to make sure that my 6 year old has flushed first before she sticks both hands in it and gleefully splashes it all over herself.
I’m not sure which is worse–cleaning up your child’s urine from the floor, or cleaning it off your other child.
Not to worry, though. She’s been effectively distratced from the toilet by the bag of salad she pulled out of the grocery bag, and is delighted to discover that it makes a nice crunching noise as she drags it along with while crawling down the hall. And isn’t the hallway the perfect place for a bag of salad?
Well, at my house it is. Back off, Martha.
At least Little Sister is feeling good enough that she is no longer crying at the top of her lungs in half an hour intervals Progress, people. Progress.
Oh, how I need a vacation….
ROFL. sounds like my youngest… at least with the salad thing. The toilet thing… I’m Attempting to teach my older children to close the toilet lid. I know it’s a dream, but I can TRY!!!! or maybe I’m just dilusional.
Comment #1 by AprilMay 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pmWe have toilet issues in our house too. We also have garbage issues. But the favorite thing to do is pull the clean folded laundry out of the basket as quickly as I can put it in.
What’s your dream vacation Heather O?
Comment #2 by AbbyMay 19th, 2008 at 3:11 pmWe have toilet issues, too. Thus the reason you here me yelling “Shut the bathroom door!!” five thousand times a day. If it’s not #4 (15 months old) playing in the toilet, then it’s #3 (3 years old) playing in the sink with the water running all over the counters. Seriously, we have a backyard, what is their problem!?
Anyway, I’m glad Little Sister is feeling better! And I hope you get your vacation soon…
Comment #3 by cherylMay 19th, 2008 at 3:19 pmOh, sheesh! “Hear me yelling”…
Comment #4 by cherylMay 19th, 2008 at 3:19 pmcan’t stop laughing, sorry.
Comment #5 by moddyMay 19th, 2008 at 5:42 pmgood to know that my kids aren’t the only ones fascinated with things that are gross ewww yucky. My DD has to be watched very carefully outside at parks and such, as she is FAST at putting nasty things in her mouth (dog poo, cigarette butts, etc.) It’s a little disconcerting, but hey, she’ll grow out of it soon.
Comment #6 by mellocelloMay 19th, 2008 at 5:47 pm“Oh, how I need a vacation….”
I read it initially as, “Oh, how I need a vicadin…” - which I thought also was appropriate.
Comment #7 by RayMay 19th, 2008 at 5:51 pmOne Sunday May morning I found a dozen empty june bug shells in my son’s diaper. I winged out. He was fine. He had, however, acquired a taste that would stay with him for the rest of the summer. He’s 27 now and I listen with glee to the exploits of his third child, who is like him in so many ways, and is now eating bugs.
Comment #8 by KarenMay 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pmI am still wretching about the june bugs, Karen! Blech!!!!
Thankfully, despite being all boy, my three sons have never been into anything nasty. They are, however, complete and total wusses!!! Heaven forbid they should get a small scratch, it’s like the end of the world!
Comment #9 by SallyGirlMay 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pmHas the dog eaten the poop out of the toilet yet? Yum.
Comment #10 by wbprawMay 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pmJust think of it as building up her immune system. She’s actually getting healthier!
Comment #11 by AubreyMay 19th, 2008 at 7:22 pmMy year-old son has a particular fondness for licking shoes. That and splashing in the toilet…
Comment #12 by XenaMay 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pmIt is good to know I am not the only one! Awh yes the sweet sounds of motherhood. The sounds of toilet water splashing, marker on a wall, total silence (that means somthing big is going to happen), and crying! Oh yes, my husband could never do my job!! LOL!!
Comment #13 by AndreaMay 19th, 2008 at 8:40 pmROTFLOL! Ha! For once I can honestly say Its Not My Child! (My kids have plenty other gross faults…)
Comment #14 by ScarehaircareMay 19th, 2008 at 10:01 pmMy girl loved anything gross when she was small. Her favorite was dirt. Whenever she escaped the house, she went straight for the dirt and put a fist-full into her mouth as fast as she could! I could never be mad because she would then sit there with the biggest grin on her face! She also loved to lick rocks. She was super healthy-maybe that’s why.
Comment #15 by tamalamaMay 19th, 2008 at 10:14 pmHeather, don’t feel bad. My aunt once found her daughter gnawing on a USED tampon she’d fished out of the toilet. My aunt was horrified and took her to the emergency room, just in case. I can’t imagine what the ER staff thought.
The thought of it still makes me retch.
Comment #16 by SueMay 19th, 2008 at 10:47 pmMy oldest was a dirt eater too. She would take a fistful and then look carefully around to make sure we were watching, then stuff it in her mouth as we came running.
It would come out the other end as sandpaper diapers.
We ran it past the pediatrician and he wasn’t too concerned.
Comment #17 by ResearcherMay 20th, 2008 at 5:55 amSo glad to hear that my household is not the only one where the holler of “SHUT THE BATHROOM DOOR!!!” is heard everytime there’s a flush (or not, which occurs about half the time, in which case the consequences are even worse). My 20-month-old races to the bathroom with book or battery-operated toy in hand whenever he senses the door may be opening. No amount of shouting or wild gesticulating seems to deter him from hurling anything he can into the toilet. I’d just flush them if they were small enough to go down (which they never are).
Comment #18 by JoyMay 20th, 2008 at 6:39 amAt least urine is pretty much germ-free, right? I mean, #2 would be reallllly gross… Just looking for that silver lining here!
Comment #19 by traceyMay 20th, 2008 at 7:13 amOh Sue, I can’t imagine that. As always, you win for best/grossest comment.
Comment #20 by Heather O.May 20th, 2008 at 8:36 amThankfully my kid hasn’t eaten too many nasty things, but oh my, Sue. I am laughing so hard right now, but still want to throw up thinking about that experience.
Comment #21 by AngieMay 20th, 2008 at 8:48 amJust remember, urine is *initially* sterile. That helps, right?
Comment #22 by teresaMay 20th, 2008 at 9:08 amUghhh- my almost 2 yr old daughter prefers to slink off to the basement bathroom, grab a play cup from the play kitchen and sip the water from the toilet at her leisure as she listens to me racing around the house looking for her in her other hot spots. She even makes that satisfied ‘AHHH!’ after she drinks. G-R-O-S-S!!!!
Comment #23 by ejMay 20th, 2008 at 9:09 amI have the grossest story, hands-down. I was changing my twins’ poopy diapers. I finished the first one, set it on the floor, and changed the second one. One of the girls had made a mess of her clothes, so I picked up the second diaper only (why did I do that? why didn’t I grab both dirty diapers? why why why?) and went to get a change of clothes.
You can probably guess the rest of the story. When I got back, one of the girls was sampling the bits and pieces out of her sister’s diaper that had been sitting on the floor. I called poison control and told the pharmacist that my child had been eating poop out of her twin sister’s diaper. He laughed his butt off.
Let me tell you, I cannot wait to tell her prom date.
Comment #24 by BridgetMay 20th, 2008 at 9:24 amLOL. Oh wow.
I saw some talk show where they went into a typical suburban home and tested various parts of the house for germs. The kitchen sink was much germier than the toilet. People scrub their toilets down with bleach but never think to disinfect the kitchen sink.
Comment #25 by Susan MMay 20th, 2008 at 10:52 amso gross!
Comment #26 by snow whiteMay 20th, 2008 at 11:54 amI think I’ve already mentioned my baby gnawing on a desicated frog one morning, but I’ll go ahead and throw that one in the fray anyway! As for everything else, I’ve learned never to say “MY child would never do THAT”, because you never know what the next baby will get into. I never had a kid so interested in the artistic application of poop as my #3.
My daughter was a pro at pooing in the tub and then playing with her poo. Every single stinkin night she did it, ick!!!
My son once had a little poo fall out of his diaper. He saw it on the floor and before I could stop him he grabbed it and popped it in his mouth!!!! I wasn’t sure he actually had taste buds until that moment when he spat it back out promply and said yuck!!!!
So then several weeks ago he see’s a little chocolate chip on the floor and looks at me and says “poo”. I tell him it’s chocolate and he can eat it. He first looks like I’m some crazy women, and I reassure him it’s not poop, he picks it up and barely licks it, just to make sure, before he pops it in his mouth LOL!!!!!
Comment #27 by SarahMay 20th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI don’t understand kids and poo. The other night my daughter came running out of their room saying “little brother is stinky!”. Sure enough, my little guy had pulled off his pants and poopy diaper and was standing in the crib with his hands full of poo. Thankfully he hadn’t gotten around to smearing yet, but still. Yuck!
When my daughter was about 2 1/2 she tried to change her own diaper. I found her naked in her room smeared with poop from head to two. One of the only things that kept me from completely losing it was the totally sad way she looked at me and said “Mama, I brown!”. She was trying so hard, LOL.
Comment #28 by FoxyJMay 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pmi swear that kind of stuff just builds immunity! dd is almost 3 and hasn’t even been on antibiotics– i attribute it to the fact that she has an affinity for licking things in public places (shopping carts, doorstops in public restrooms, and railings at airports, just to name a few). fortunately she’s slowing down, but still gets a quick lick in every once in awhile….
Comment #29 by rmpmomMay 20th, 2008 at 6:07 pmOooh. Licking. My kids will say, “[The baby’s] licking the carpet.” He also licks the phone if I try to put it up to his ear so he can talk to daddy. He hasn’t been out in public much to see how the wide world tastes…
Comment #30 by ResearcherMay 20th, 2008 at 6:58 pmThe immune system is a wonderful thing.
Comment #31 by Alison WonderlandMay 21st, 2008 at 4:34 amAnd I bleach my kitchen sink too.
My nephew got out of bed in the middle of the night, age 3-4 years, and still mostly asleep, walked into the bathroom and began peeing in the toilet…
except,oops! He wasn’t in the bathroom! He was across the hall in my nieces bedroom and he was peeing on her.
I guess we all have our favorite “eeew gross” pee stories : )
Comment #32 by TamiMay 21st, 2008 at 9:11 am