poop. there's so much of it involved in motherhood. we are in the throes of potty training with eli (because i was starting to feel like i was giving hospice care instead of changing my kid's diaper). yesterday he pooped in his underwear so we rushed to the potty, dumped what was in the underwear to the toilet and sat him down. you know, reinforcing that it belongs in the potty and what not.
i'm not sure how or when i became one of "those" moms, but as i dropped what belonged in the potty into the potty some water splashed up and got me in the face. my next move? i suppose a normal human would have shrieked and ran to wash her face. the mom in me made sure my son was securely on the potty, gave some words of encouragement, and sauntered over to the sink. that's right, in the moment toilet water on my face didn't seem like a huge deal... as if it was something we all have to deal with.
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I had bath water splash and land in my mouth the other night, fully knowing that Penny had peed in it already.
I almost barfed.
And just so you know, my sister used to do the same thing with her son (dump the poop in the potty) and all he did after that was poop in his pants and INSIST that she put it in the potty where it goes. That one back-fired on her. I hope you have better luck than she did! She ended up forcing him to run around naked until he proved himself worthy of his Incredible Hulk undies. She also told him that if he pooped on the Incredible Hulk, he would bite her son's butt. It worked. He was terrified.
Ah, poop. I've got a lot of that in my life. Good luck with potty training!!
that exact thing happened to me last week... except it splashed INTO my EYEBALL. i think i just let out an exasperated sigh and then wiped my face with my sleeve. that's pretty gross now that i think about it, but hey... what's done is done. and i now have a little bit of poop-water in my eye.
i like that idea of having the hulk biting your butt if you poop in your big boy underwear.... maybe that will actually scare noah into attempting to poop in the toilet, because so far it's been a NO GO. and i am SO sick of changing diapers with big ol' nasty adult sized poops in them. that on top of wiping up pretty much daily blow-outs from his little brother!
HOORAY FOR POOP!
Good move. If you hadn't secured the child first, you would have had more poop to clean. Prevention is the first rule of poop containment, in my opinion.
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