*WARNING: CONTAINS GROSS MENTAL IMAGES AND SMELLS THAT COULD MAKE YOU FEEL SICK. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK*
Yesterday I was sitting on the couch watching Enchanted with Audrey when Alex started crying. He had been down for a nap and I told Audrey to go up and let him out of his room (I have a child-proof door knob on his door). Audrey went up and the next thing I heard was, "Mom, I just stepped in Alex's poop, he took off his diaper and it stinks REALLY bad!" I cringed and started up the stairs, afraid of what I was going to find.
Audrey was at the top of the stairs with a poopey foot, yes she had tracked it across the hall to come and show me. Alex was standing on his bed naked from the waist down crying. There were several spots of poop on the floor including a big smear of it where Audrey had opened the door across it. First, I grabbed Audrey and stuck her foot in the sink. Then I grabbed Alex, stripped him down and stuck him in the tub. Poor boy was crying the whole time. He knew he had done something really bad. I helped Audrey clean her foot up and went to survey the damage. There was poop on the carpet in several spots, on the door, underneath the door, all over the bed wherever Alex had sat his dirty bum down, and now, on the hall carpet. Oh, and of course he had peed all over the bed too. I grabbed the carpet cleaner, a spoon (which I later threw away), a bucket of water, and several cloths. It was so disgusting! If the sight hadn't already made me sick the smell would have for sure. It was horrible! I cleaned up what I could with a spoon and sprayed plenty of Spot Shot carpet cleaner on the floor. In the meantime, I started a big load of laundry with lots of bleach and HOT water. I had to do several loads because of course he got a little on his bedspread too. Oh the joys of motherhood! Finally, after I felt like I had things under control, I went and got Alex out of the tub. I wrapped him in a towel and sat him on the stool in the bathroom. I left to go change the laundry. I turned around to leave the laundry room only to see Alex standing behind me peeing on the floor! I think I said a dirty word under my breath and then just tried to laugh! Sometimes that's all you can do in these situations. The rest of the day Alex went around the house saying "No no, diaper on"! I hope he learned his lesson!
After I got things put back together and sanitized, I got the potty chair out. I figure it's about time, even though I am not looking forward to it. Jeff really missed out on this one! Oh, and if anyone is looking for a great carpet cleaner, I recommend Spot Shot. It got all the poop completely out and I can't even tell where it was today!
P.S. I thought about taking a picture, but I didn't feel it would be appropriate nor appreciated. You're welcome!
10 comments:
Oh no! That is so gross, but a really funny story. Poor little Alex. And poor YOU!
LOL - that is horrible. I am so sorry!
It's a good thing moments like those don't come around to often. We just might go insaine!
unbelievable! :):):):)
Just remember he will be involved in the decision of which rest home you will go to.
Ha ha ha!! I'm laughing with you (not at you), I have SO been there (more than once with multiple varieties of childhood bodily secretions). And yes, after you get over the sheer horror of the situation it becomes rather funny.
I don't think you are a real mother until you have been up to your eyeballs in poop at least once. ;)
I am so lucky that has never happened to me (yet)! My friends have told me horror stories but I keep crossing my fingers. So sorry-
All in a day's work! Now if Jeff ever asks what you do all day at home, you'll have a great one to pull out of the hat!
It think that poop, throwup, pee, or any other bodily secretion is just a rite of passage into Motherhood! Congrats, you passed.
Boys will be boys! Potty training Grant has definitely not been a sanitary experience. You are not alone, my dear, and I can't help but feel a little happy that I am not alone, either!
Oh Josie, how awful! That is one of those things where yo look at it and go, WHAT do I do??!! HA! Oh the joys of motherhood!
I am sorry, but I am laughing! I think that is hilarious! It was hard to train Becca to poop in the toilet. I would bribe her every day by saying "if you poop in the toilet, I will buy you an ice cream." One day I changed the bribe phraseology and said "if you don't poop in your panties, I will buy you and ice cream cone." So she went in the bathroom, took off her panties, put on some pull-ups and then pooped. She came out all proud of her self and said she did not poop in her panties and that she wanted her ice cream. Pretty smart kid, huh?
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