ME!!!! I am officially awarding myself the Mom of the Hour Award, an award just made up by me, but I feel so happy to have won it! Congratulations, ME!!!
Why am I so deserving of this award, you ask???
Well, I just had to come out of my blogging respite to tell you this story. Perhaps you may find joy and laughter in the story or perhaps you will find it utterly disgusting. BUT, here goes to all those willing and daring enough to read...
Our littlest, oh dear Letty, is going through this phase where she likes to take all of her clothes off, especially her pajamas. She has figured out how to muscle her way to unsnap the top part and then unzip the rest of them. She then wiggles her little arms out, sits down on the ground, and plops her feet out. BUT, she doesn't stop there...no...no... She then proceeds to...can you guess? That's right...the diaper!
Well...well...well...well, this morning... as I was in the kitchen making our breakfast...Letty comes around the corner with her pajamas off AND no diaper on. No big deal...I've seen that before. BUT, her hands are BLACK! Yes, BLACK! And, her belly is black! And then I see her little bum...yes, it is BLACK, too! And let me tell you...she wasn't playing with a crayon or a marker! :o) SO, I grab a hold of the non-black parts of her and carry her arms-length away (there was definitely no cuddling and snuggling going on at this point!) up the steps and plop her into the bathtub.
I wish I could tell you that we got all washed off and got dressed nice and warm again and we went about our morning just dandy, BUT I can't. If this moment was a movie, I think it would have been a scene from the movie Daddy Day Care where one of the dads sends the little boy into the bathroom to go to the potty, and then the little boy comes out and explains to the dad that he missed and then the dad goes into the bathroom and looks in horror at the mess all over the place. To see the clip I'm talking about, go here and watch the very end part. (sorry, if I knew more about computers and this blogging stuff and if I had more time, I would have spent the time figuring out how to get the video right onto this blog post for your viewing.)
SO, back to the story...I got the showerhead down and started spraying off my little poopy girl when I noticed that there was more there than what I was expecting, and it seemed to be extra sticky. As I was hosing Letty off, the handle slipped out of my hand and fell onto the bathtub floor spraying water everywhere as though it were a sprinkler watering the lawn. In my shock, I let out an excited scream causing Letty to panic and begin crying and trying desperately to climb out of the bathtub. Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep Letty in the tub, find a good way to grab a hold of the showerhead turned sprinkler without getting soaked by the buckets of spraying water wildly going everywhere, and keep myself poop-free. Needless to say, by the end of all of this, the rug, the floor, my camera, and myself were soaked; each side of the tub was black with streaks of runny poop; and Letty was still quite messy and crying. I finally regained control of the situation and now we are ALL nice and clean.
Okay, maybe this ordeal wasn't quite as bad as the one from Daddy Day Care, but it was definitely one of the worst things I had ever had to clean which would lead me to say that it was worthy of this award.ward-winning experience.
I thought to capture this award-winning experience in pictures, BUT as I began snapping I thought that pictures this nasty and disgusting didn't deserve to be looked at. Besides, I couldn't figure out how to capture all of it in a nice and pleasant and private way. So, here's the CLEAN and adorable version of Letty...
NOW, if you would excuse me, I need to go clean the bathroom! :o)
