Mallory saw me open the dishwasher and asked why the bath toys were in there. Well, I was getting ready to throw everyone in the bath, and the tub was almost full. Lexi was the first one naked, and she hopped right in. While I was pulling off shirts and stuff from everyone else, Lexi started SCREAMING. I glanced over and saw…a huge turd in the bathtub with her! She pooped in the tub. Ugh! If I’d known she had to poop, I would have put her on the toilet first, to see if she could have had a successful pottying attempt! Instead, horror. And then the other kids started screaming, too. Thankfully, nobody else had gotten into the tub yet!

I kept my cool, though, even though I quickly realized that Lexi had tried to pick up her poop, and it was on her hand and in her hair. I wiped her hand off with a washcloth and set her on the toilet, ordered the other children not to move or leave the room or touch Lexi, and I used the shampoo bucket to scoop out the lil Baby Ruth and let the water out of the tub. Then, I threw all the rubber duckies and spongey letters in the sink and grabbed the Comet so I could scrub out the tub! I did that in about two minutes, and ran the kids a new bath. I cleaned up Lexi pretty well before I put her in with the other kids, though.

See, now this is how a mother handles this sort of thing. It was no biggie, and it only added about 5 extra minutes to our bath! Haha! I didn’t freak out, and the kids calmed down. If it had been Paul, though, aka Super Germ Phobe, we would have had to put the kids through a Silkwood shower or something.

So, yeah. The bath toys got thrown in a trash bag and sent down to the kitchen, where they made the sanitizing trip through the ol’ dishwasher. And y’know, this is our second poop incident in a couple of days! Pablo pulled down his big boy underwear while we were in the backyard and copped a squat right in the playhouse. That was actually pretty funny. Well, until he stepped in it. Who knew kid poop was so hard to get off of sneakers?

Random LaLa Goodness

• September 13, 2006 -- I’m still all discombobulated.
• November 26, 2007 -- Hmph!
• November 11, 2006 -- I never can find this stuff when I’m looking for it.
• December 2, 2005 -- Feeling better.
• March 15, 2006 -- Wednesday!