Our son is almost 3. No, he isn't yet potty-trained, but boy are we trying! For about the past month, he has been bare-bottomed at home, and as you can imagine, we've been pooped on and peed on, as has the dining room floor, the bathroom wall and the living room rug (which, ironically, is the only rug our cat has yet to pee on). If it's not the cat, it's the kid!
Turns out, going without Pull-Ups is not only hazardous to us and our furnishings, but it poses a danger for the Boy, too. Back story: Yesterday he came home from preschool, delighted for two reasons. First, he was about to watch Thomas the Tank Engine on TV, which I allow him to do after school. Second, his teacher had given him a Thomas sticker for good behavior. Fast forward 25 minutes...he's happily watching Thomas in the buff while I'm changing the baby's diaper.
"Mommy, look!"
"What is it love?"
"Look at Thomas!"
"I know, that's your favorite episode, isn't it?"
"Look at Thomas!"
"I see the show, sweetie. Mommy's busy changing your sister's stinky diaper."
"No Mommy. Look at me."
It turns out my child was proud as punch that he'd figured out his Thomas sticker would stick to the tip of his penis! Clever boy! I guess the time had come for parenting lesson #558, "Thou shalt not put stickers or any other adhesive substance on thy private parts!" Here I was, all prepared for the don't insert foreign object up nose talk, that I forgot I was dealing with a boy!
Of course, this kind of thing only happens when Daddy is at work. So I did the only thing I could think of when dear Son became alarmed that he couldn't remove Thomas. Quick, like a band-aid... After much jumping about, punctuated by "Ow, ow, ow, it hurts! My pee pee's broken, Mommy!" I'm happy to report that everything worked out in the end.
We may just see grandchildren after all.
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