Miss Me?

This is copied and pasted from my Blogspot blog. I realize I've completely neglected blogging lately. I blame my business (which is doing very well and such a blessing) and my baby (who is also doing very well and a wonderful blessing!).

Plus, Pleonast is dead. Anyone else ready to admit that? Sad, but very true.

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Ah, the things that make one think "I should document this". 

**WARNING** This post is about poo...and I don't mean the Disney character.

I saw on the video monitor today that Amelia had woken from her nap.  I was in the middle of something and decided to just let her be since she seemed content.  Probably about half an hour passed and I assumed she had fallen back to sleep since she's been doing that quite a bit lately.  I finally check the monitor and I can tell that her rear is bare.  I didn't look too closely but I grabbed my camera on the way to her room, thinking that whatever was going on would at least be humorous enough to photograph.

I was right.

I'll spare you the photos, but she had decided to see what it would be like to poo on her crib sheet instead of her diaper.  The diaper was virtually unscathed save for a few poo streaks on the outside.  Not only did she deficate on the crib sheet, she played in it and smeared it all over everything she could reach.

Now, I'm a first time mom and have never had to clean up a mess this stinky or on a scale as large as this.  I didn't really know what to do exactly.  I left the room and started to fill the tub.  When I went back into her room I took her shirt off of her and she tried to grab my shirt.  Keep in mind her hands are absolutely black they're so caked with poo.  I realized once I reached the bathroom that filling the tub was a monumentally BAD idea.  Now there were poo particles floating all around her the second I put her in.  So, I started to empty the tub, all the while trying to run her hands under the heavy-streaming water and scrubbing them as much as I could.  I was grateful that I had just cut her nails a few days ago.

I finally got her un-pooed enough that I could fill the tub and give her a normal bath.  That was the easy part.  While I was drying her off I called my mom.  I knew she'd get a kick out of my situation and, honestly, I thought it was pretty funny, too.  It wouldn't have been funny if Amelia was old enough to know better and did it anyway, but she's 1.  Anyway, apparently my younger sister had done the same thing to my mom when she was a baby.  I think my dad called this something like "sweet revenge".  Maybe 28 years down the road I'll get a call from Amelia when her baby smears poo all over the place.  A mom can only hope.

It really wasn't as bad as I thought - cleaning it up.  I put all of her little stuffed animals and her blanket in a bag and also had a separate bag to put my used cleaning items in.  Her crib sheet was soaked in the bathtub while the bumper, rug (yes, some even ended up on the floor), and mattress pad were washed.  Then her sheet and her little animals were washed. 

I'm sure you care about the details.  I just have to say that I would rather clean up her poo than be a Northwesterner without A/C this week.  It got into the mid-90s today and many, many homes in this region do not have central air.  We had ours installed when we moved in and it's so nice.  Although, last night we lost power for a few hours (which never happens) and that was pretty crazy.

I'll catch up with other things soon.  I have to write about Amelia's first birthday party.

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  So sorry about that...thankfully none of my 3 ever granted me that experience! She's a cutie though...hard to believe she's already 1. I keep hoping someone I know will have a baby girl so I can order some of you bows...I'm surrounded by boys!

  by dhudgins at 07/09/10 11:32PM
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  Very funny story! I'm sure it is a little funnier now that it is all cleaned up, though. :)

  by jenkegley at 07/09/10 11:58PM
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  Ohhhhhhh my - I was blessed to never have this happen!
  Glad it all came out in the wash, so to speak. :-D

  by kailua at 07/10/10 11:48AM
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  But, really, do you get more readers on Blogspot? Pleonast is slow, but it's facebook's fault. And if you post something like this on facebook, nobody will read it unless you tag them. Oh, well.
  
  I think I remember my wife having that sort of an adventure! My only adventure was the occasional awful smell in the bedroom, but I did do the clean up sometimes.

  by AlanL at 07/10/10 12:14PM
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  I still pretty much only visit pleonast. I'm on Facebook some, but I don't have time to sort through everyone's Farmville and I Own a Fish updates.

  by mjintexas at 07/10/10 1:06PM
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  Ohhhh No!

  by lauriw1030 at 07/10/10 8:15PM
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  Amelia's getting so big! And I *have* missed you around here!

  by sarahmarcelle at 07/10/10 11:16PM
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  No, I don't think it's dead. I think that less people certainly use it. But it's not dead. It's more like when it was first used and there were FAR less people using it. This is the only way I keep in touch with my Christian friends, and I won't stop using it just for that reason.

  by whipsmile at 07/11/10 9:30AM
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  if pleonast is dead, then I am crying. Seriously.

  by whipsmile at 07/11/10 9:30AM
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  pleonast is SO not dead! ;) elinor did poop in my shower the other day. but it was very easy to clean up since i saw it right after it happened! and it saved a diaper! ;)

  by spike427 at 07/12/10 9:17PM
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  NO! Never surrender to FB! :)

  by jlmanager at 07/13/10 12:00PM
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  Too Funny!! I have twin sisters who are 4 years younger than me, Their cribs were pressed up to one another on the sides, well...at least until they were a little over a year old. This is when my mom and I walked in to pick them up after a nap and they had both removed their pooey diapers and smeared them all over one another, the walls, the bedding....well you know the story. After that day my mom moved their cribs on opposite sides of the room!

  by kris at 07/13/10 2:20PM
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  Great story! Fortunately, I have never had this experience with any of my 5 babies...but may I suggest snapping cloth diapers??? ;-)

  by kristindoula at 07/14/10 12:26PM
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  Oh no! Sounds like you handled it well, I can only imagine the pictures!

  by jess at 07/28/10 12:19PM
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  We went to a wedding reception last week. The father of the bride told the following story.
  
  The bride was very young and had been watching her parents paint. The mother walked into her daughter's bedroom to discover that her daughter had taken a paint brush, dunked it into her dirty diaper and painted the front of the dresser with poo.
  The mother cleaned the daughter and the dresser. Then gave the daughter time out, sitting on her bed. The child was adament that she would not say, "No more painting with poopie."
  The mother was starting to feel guilty about making her daughter sit there so long. She asked God for a sign that she was doing the right thing.
  Just as she did that she heard her daughter hollar out "NO SAY no paint with poopie!!!"
  The daughter stayed on her bed until dinner when she decided she was hungry. She complied with her parent's wishes, ate dinner and never painted with poopie again.
  Makes me glad I was not this bride!

  by kailua at 07/29/10 12:44PM
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  cute!!! I don't think i know your blog address, just read your fbook notes.

  by kiss_the_rain at 08/10/10 1:30AM