Another Day in the life of a time management fiend
May 7, 2007 by kellys
Filed under family, odds and ends
Ok, so here is a time killer of a morning that I have to tell you about. Most of my friends will get the biggest kick out of it knowing my husband.
We, KM and I, woke up around 7 am and watched the wiggles. She ate oatmeal on my lap and we thought about getting dressed for church. The DH got up and watched her for me at 8 so I could get a shower. I know! He was actually up and focused before noon. That’s only because he went to bed at 11pm instead of 5 am. He works way too hard!
So I got my shower and then he did. We were getting read to walk out of the house to eat at McDonald’s when we noticed that our daughter had decided to poop and then dig it out to paint the carpet with! LOVELY! So I went to change her outfit, which was adorable, and wash her up while the DH shampooed the carpet. We were both frustrated because we need to get her to stop doing this without her thinking that pooping is a bad thing. Just using as a paining medium is bad.
We had to go to church in separate cars due to our afternoon schedules so we landed at McDonald’s with no extra drama. My daughter yells out “Sausage Gravy!” while her daddy tries to get her out of the car seat in the back of the truck. She proceeds to accidentally kick over his full oversized mug of diet 7-Up all over the diaper bag, bible, and truck interior. Needless to say that by the time I got to the truck, he was very frustrated and I was trying not to laugh because she was just wanting to get to the food inside.
So we cleaned up the mess and ate a quiet breakfast. Luckily, we didn’t spill anything for the rest of the morning, but it was a very time consuming morning with us missing out on church. We got there in time for second service but not first. If you know anything about me, I hate being late. But this morning, I did very well. You would be proud of me.
Hope your Sunday was less traumatic than ours.
Good grief! I can sympathize. Every day has seemed like that around here. Saturday my two kids took all of the bedding on the spare bed. Yesterday they took the pillow off the bed and tore the case off the pillow (literally tore the fabric apart, the pillow came with a thin protective case) and tore up the foam pillow leaving a big mess in the room. Today my little boy pulled the diaper cream out of the drawer and wiped it all over the spare bed. Errrrrrr, I was so mad!!!! He is going through a very mischievous stage right now.
At least I’m not the ONLY one who has a child that likes to play with poop. About 2 weeks ago, I went to get my 2 year old son out of his room after nap time to find almost the same thing. EXCEPT, he had locked himself in there (I frantically found the “emergency key” above the door) and all the while was saying “uh oh.”
When I finally got the door open, he was naked from the waist down, a poopy diaper was on the floor and a big blob of poop had been smushed into the carpet.
UNfortunately, I’ve experienced the SAME thing before. . . .from my 4 year old when she was 2. She used to do that at nap time. Even though she was potty trained, we put a pull-up on her at naptime “just in case.” (And we DID put her on the toilet every day before naptime.)
Want to know what worked???? DUCT TAPE! Yes, it’s true. We started duct taping her diapers so she couldn’t get into them. Worked like a charm. The only thing is we had to keep scissors near the changing table to get them off her! ha ha! It only took 2 weeks to “cure” her of the habit.
To ramble on a little more. . . . I had all sorts of advice from women I knew at the time. One actually suggested that I put a pile of newspapers in one corner so she would go on them instead of the floor. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? HA HA!
PS We have since turned the lock around on my son’s door. Now we lock him inside during nap time on purpose, and the emergency key is inside his room above the door! (If we don’t lock him in there, we worry about him getting out & falling down the stairs since gates don’t work with him anymore.)
My goodness! The things moms have to do.
My little one (21 months) just figured out that he can open the refrigerator door. Ahhhh! There are just some things you don’t want them to learn!
First, I can’t belive he is 21 months old!
Second, at least you didn’t duct tape her mouth. I actually ahd a teacher that did that to the entire class. I have a wonderful mustache for a lady
Third, duct tape wouldn’t work for us anyway because she digs it out of the side. But I am so glad to know that I am not the only one who deals with it. Sometimes I feel like such a bad parent because everyone tells me that it is time to potty train her. I know that and am working on it with poop but she is not ready to do it with pee!