I’m tired of being at home, dammit! Tomorrow, we’re going out somewhere. I think we’re going to meet up some friends at the mall to play for a bit. I think my kids are tired of just playing with each other and I know I’m ready to hear another adult voice!!
Today’s been okay. We didn’t go anywhere. I did a bunch of cleaning and got a bit of laundry done. Mallory stripped naked during her nap and pooped in her crib, and it actually traumatized the hell out of her. She started screaming for me, “Caca, mommy! Caca!!!” I got her to poop the rest of it in the toilet and then threw her in the tub and cleaned poop off the toilet, the crib rails, MYSELF, etc. Yay!! And yesterday during naptime, BOTH kids stripped naked – Mallory peed all over her bed – it’s as if she ran around peeing – every stuffed animal and blanket and toy and everything was moist. I threw it all in the wash – the stuffed animals and everything – and they came out surprisingly clean and looking brand new. I never would have thought you could throw stuffed animals in the wash like that. It may be because we have those front loading appliances that are more gentle and use less water. Anyway – she was the easy one yesterday. PABLO was nekkid in his crib, and had pulled his diaper apart, and spread the insides of it everywhere. For those of you without small children, there’s some sort of substance inside diapers that makes them absorbent. It expands into this weird, sticky, gel-like substance – like little gel beads that smell like chemicals and piss. It looked like a bomb had gone off inside his crib. And I discovered this ten minutes before the speech therapist arrived at our house. I had to just shake pablo’s bedding and stuff into the tub and then throw it in the wash. I got both the kids downstairs and re-clothed before the ST got here, amazingly. Later on, I had to drag the damned vacuum upstairs and vacuum that crap out of Pablo’s crib – his crib tent kept it all neatly contained in there!!
So, I think it’s time to try duct tape. If I could just get those two interested in the potty, that sure would be great!! They’re just not into it, though. Mallory will try. Pablo doesn’t even realize that pee and poo come out of his body – I think he just wonders why I keep chasing him down and tackling him in order to forcibly change his diaper. He hates it so much, but I swear – he’ll just stand there naked, pissing, sometimes, like before a bath or something – and it’s like he doesn’t even realize it’s happening! Is this a boy thing?
I swear. I can’t wait for the day when the only ass I have to wipe is my own.
Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism. In addition to playing Barbies and pretending to eat plastic food all day, Laura spends most of her time folding clean laundry, obsessing about the amount of sugar her kids eat, and vacuuming up Polly Pocket accessories. She's obsessed with Yo Gabba Gabba, red wine, and Family Guy. Questions? Just ask. Care to Subscribe by Email?
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Jill Gberg
April 14th, 2006 at 5:53 am
And maybe when you really get old…you’ll have 4 or five people that can wipe your ass for you.
LaDonna
April 14th, 2006 at 6:44 am
Not to rub it in too bad, but I remember a comment on my site after my dog’s diarrhea incident where you mentioned not having to clean up poop because your kids wore diapers! I take it Kayley never did things like this? (Running for cover so Laura doesn’t bitch-slap me!)
Janelle
April 14th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Ouch!! That sounds sounds like a pretty “shitty” day! (pardon the pun) I hope you have a better day today.
Amy
April 14th, 2006 at 7:26 am
Had to LOL at LaDonna’s comment. Heh! I have BTDT too many times with both of my kids, Laura. So I feel your pain! People who don’t have “active children” just can’t possibly understand this stuff. And if having active children weren’t enough, I had an active dog on top of it. She would go into diaper pails and trash cans when we went out and shred all the diapers all over the place. THAT was always great to come home to.
Duct tape sounds like a good option at this point! And you never know, if they’re stripping – it might be getting close to potty-training time. It seems like mine both started not too long after the stripping stage.
lala
April 14th, 2006 at 7:43 am
Yeah, you’d better run, LaDonna!! LOL!
Actually, it wasn’t that bad. It was like a solid turd I just had to snatch out of the crib and flush away. She did get some on her hands, though, which touched everything! Bleahhhhhh!!!!
angie
April 14th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Damn… these posts are funny! I feel for you because I hate poop! I swear Jackson poops more than any kid! Just last night we had 4 poop diapers from 6pm-9pm and the 4th one he tore off and was sitting there on my cream colored carpet just playing away! UUGGHHH we are ALREADY tearing our diaper off!
Eden
April 14th, 2006 at 8:33 am
I don’t know if it’s a boy thing or a sensory thing but Dillon does the same thing. He’s learning though. He will just stand there before a bath and pee too, lol. But, sometimes now he’ll pat his diaper and make a noise, usually there’s poop in there. It’s not often enough. And we have A HUGE problem changing his diaper. He screams bloody murder still. I wonder if that’s sensory related too? It’s one of the things his OT is going to work on with us.
Chris
April 15th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Brady never played in his diaper, but he removed it many times. He had absolutely no interest in potty training until well after 2-1/2 and yes, peed without noticing. After my first one who was so clean and tidy about potty stuff, this was a bit of a shock. I kept introducing the potty to see if he was ready, but he never was. He’d tell me he didn’t want to pee in the toilet. About 6 weeks before he turned 3, a friend was over for a play date. We lived on an old farm and the boys were out playing amongst the trees next to the house. Brady’s buddy whipped out his penis and watered my trees! Brady found this so exciting that he decided to follow suit. He was so proud of himself and in a couple of days was peeing in the toilet.
Maggie
April 16th, 2006 at 9:47 am
That was a humorous entry. HAH. I mean, I’m not laughing at your frustration…i’m just laughing at the things kids can put us through.