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My Endorsement Post for Ceramic Floors While Raising Small Children (well except when they hit their heads on them…)

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So.

We were on our own come Friday afternoon when my parents drove away.

Ok, done talking about that before the tears well up.

Anywho.

Saturday morning we had to go back to the hospital to do a blood draw on Baby K because her pediatrician was concerned about her billirubin levels (jaundice) and she needed a second PKU screen.

AND since I cannot drive, that meant ALL of us were off to the hospital. AND since it was a Saturday we had to start out in the germ infested, no-one-with-the-piggy-flu-or-any-other-sickness-better-come-within-25-feet-of-my-newborn (or my boys for that matter), ER.

Then we ended up on the pediatric floor where AFTER we let B and G play in the playroom there, noticed the sign that said the play area was for the sick children on that floor and NOT clean. Yeah, they had the “NOT” capitalized on THEIR sign, that wasn’t just me typing that here. Let’s just say it’s a good thing there was a Purell dispenser every 5 feet. I think they had to refill them all after we left the building…

But let’s back track a little, shall we?

BEFORE leaving for the hospital it was kinda crazy getting the boys showered and ready to go. I had to pump and also needed to rinse myself off and Little G loves to run around the house naked after he gets clean and well long story short, he’s no longer allowed to do that.

I caught him in our long hallway and he looked up at me and said “Stinky!”

I (like the very distracted OMG I HAVE THREE KIDS NOW! Mother that I am), ignored him and figured he just tooted or something and proceeded to lay him on his bed to put his diaper on.

Too late.

He had poop ALL down his legs and on his bottom and now, it was on the coverlette on his bed. I hollered for Tim and he came and asked if I wanted to clean G or the bed and I opted for the bed. Mostly because I thought there was just a little on the bed but after further investigation I realized that it was much worse than I had originally surmised. So in the washer it went.

I kept thinking in my head that it wasn’t very much poop and Tim (being the one who tossed him in the bath tub) exclaimed “It was more than you thought!”

Then The B Man found it. In our living room, on the floor. Of course all you had to have was a nose and be within 15 feet of it to recognize that something was certainly “rotten in Denmark.” I looked down and all I could do was start laughing and yelling to Tim that we found the “real” poop.

And right after that I raised mine eyes to the heavens and thanked the good Lord that we have ceramic floors in our living room.

Oh and now, I’m really glad my MIL is here now for reinforcements. We are no longer outnumbered. At least not this week.

elaine

Comments

  1. Oh the joys of motherhood!! I’ve been having days like that! If I don’t put shorts on the Boy, he is in the habit of taking his diaper off, no matter what is inside. Sometimes it is nothing, that is when I start the search!!! Yep, on the floor, bed, chair…wherever he feels the need!!
    Don’t worry, Little G will get back to “normal” in a couple of months!!
    Those billirubin levels are tricky…2 out of 3 of mine had to go back for tests a couple of times, it has alot to do with how much the baby eats right after birth in order to flush it out. Walking around in sunshine a few minutes a day helps a little, it has something to do with UV light….hopefully we will have a little sunshine soon!!
    Glad your MIL is there! I cried when my mom left all three times!! I was like, “don’t leave me here with these people!!” 😀 Have a good week! I’ll call you soon!

  5. Glad help is back for you!
    I had a toddler poop all over my carpet 2 weeks ago…diaper mishap….it was NOT pretty
    I may now be officially pushing hubby to look into ceramic floors!

  6. Not to make you feel bad, but I was seriously laughing my a$$ off when I read this. Since I know y’all so well, I was picturing the whole thing in my mind’s eye. The yells for Tim, his reactions, and Ben’s discovery. I know it wasn’t funny to you at the time but I bet you can laugh about it now.

    Love and miss you guys,
    Chandler

  7. Wow, I totally feel you on the stinky mess.

    J took off a “stinky” diaper to other day while I was in the shower and proceeded to get it all over the bathroom floor and WALL!!!

    Again, thank God for tile and bleach. Especially for bleach. 🙂

  10. Oh my goodness. I hope you get to the point where you laugh about this. And these things happen to all of us, at some point.

  12. Luke did this shortly after Tommy was born! He went on the potty, then ran upstairs to get something. I was downstairs nursing Tommy and wondered what was taking him so long, so I went upstairs, and he had pooped on the carpet. He’d gotten baby wipes and cleaned it all up pretty well, but it was still gross!

  15. I well remember our potty training days and being so grateful when accidents like that happened on the bathroom tile floor or the hardwoods, etc..but I also cleaned up lots of carpet. Ugh! SO sorry!!

  16. Ceramic floors were obviously invented by a woman. Our house is all ceramic tile and I’m so very thankful. Between kid poop and puke, and the treasures, the dog leaves, my butt’s been saved so many times!!

    Miss you girl, and so glad everything’s going so well!!

    Love!

  17. I am positive someone already said this but really, when I have been original? That’s just crappy Elaine. Actually, it’s CRAPPY.

    Thank God for Mom’s and MIL’s!!!