...can do some pretty gross things. Natalie is beyond adorable and I love her to death and it's a good thing I am her mother, because seriously some stuff that comes with kids is downright gross. Examples? Oh sure, no problem! Nessie is currently 20 months old, and she has never puked in her life until last Saturday, August 25th. We spent the day with some of Mommy and Me friends (a group of 4 moms and their first borns) and Nessie had lots of cheese and then some yogurt and then she had a few things to eat for dinner at home, although her appetite wasn't the greatest which is normal, the kid doesn't like dinners. Anyway, at 10pm on Saturday night she woke up crying which is very unusual for her, since the kid goes down at 7:30pm and sleep through until 5am without any awakenings unless something is not right. Since she was crying, I went in to check on her and that is when I discovered that she puked all over her bed and all over herself. She was a good sport as she stopped crying right away and showed me her hands because she wanted them to be cleaned. I cleaned her up, changed pajamas and Matt was in charge of changing the sheets. I had to throw the sheets in the wash right away along with blankets and pajamas. Cleaning the sheets from all the food she ate (remnants of cheese and all the other stuff) was pretty gross and oh the smell....This happened again at 12:30am. So yeah, cleaning up puke isn't that much fun, but you have to do it with a smile on your face so the kid knows it's no big deal and stuff happens. And if she happens to throw up on you while you are carrying her to the bathroom (Matt was the receiver of that one), well, you just deal with it and enjoy that part of parenthood.
But more eventful and challenging was Natalie and my trip to Target yesterday. We went to Target to do our weekly shopping. Nessie is a huge fan of shopping and is very cooperative and behaves really well usually. Yesterday was no exception. She sat in a cart, had a few snacks, then it was time to let her loose so she could run around. She went through girl's clothing and looked at some stuff and tried hiding from me, always a fun game to play :) Then she came over because she wanted me to hold her, which I promply picked her up and realized that I smell something. Since we were at Target and I didn't expect her to poop I didn't bring the diaper bag and thought oh what the heck, let's grab wipes and diapers. I will just buy them and then I can changer her. So, I threw diapers and wipes in the cart and we headed out for check out lane. And that is when the kid decides to poop AGAIN which makes her diaper pretty much explode and the poop ends up in globs being on Target cart and all over her clothes (remember, no diaper bag, so no spare clothes either). She freaks out at the sight of poop in the cart, so I have to open the wipes and wipe it all off, meanwhile looking as to where I can throw all the dirty wipes away...NOWHERE but the bathroom, so they will have to sit in a nice pile in the cart while we go back to the toddler section so I can get Natalie a new outfit to change her into. Nessie doesn't want to buy new clothes because she doesn't like anything I show her until I convince her that her current outfit smells of poo and has poo all over and needs to be replaced...Then she agrees to get a purple shirt and pink shorts. Thank goodness, we have all the supplies, but oh the smell and sight of this spilled poo and it being all over her is a bit horrendous. I don't bother going through the checkout lane just yet as I need to get her changed right away, so we stroll towards the bathroom, I open the diapers, grab the wipes and new outfit and a nice pile of dirty wipes from the cart to throw away and we proceed into the bathroom for a major clean-up. 15-20 minutes later we emerge with a clean diaper, new outfit (had to take off the tags and keep them so I can pay for the outfit she is now wearing). Then I cleaned up the Target cart more thoroughly and now we were ready to proceed to check out! And decided to grab dinner at Target afterwards since we have spent slightly more time in that store than was planned and were running past dinner time. Phew. Did you know that Target trips can be so much fun? I sure didn't :)
Yeap, that is some grossology for you :) joy of parenthood, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Being there for my daughter when she needs me, being able to comfort her when she is scared or confused, that is something I wouldn't trade for the world!!!!
Below is the new unplanned outfit from Target...
But more eventful and challenging was Natalie and my trip to Target yesterday. We went to Target to do our weekly shopping. Nessie is a huge fan of shopping and is very cooperative and behaves really well usually. Yesterday was no exception. She sat in a cart, had a few snacks, then it was time to let her loose so she could run around. She went through girl's clothing and looked at some stuff and tried hiding from me, always a fun game to play :) Then she came over because she wanted me to hold her, which I promply picked her up and realized that I smell something. Since we were at Target and I didn't expect her to poop I didn't bring the diaper bag and thought oh what the heck, let's grab wipes and diapers. I will just buy them and then I can changer her. So, I threw diapers and wipes in the cart and we headed out for check out lane. And that is when the kid decides to poop AGAIN which makes her diaper pretty much explode and the poop ends up in globs being on Target cart and all over her clothes (remember, no diaper bag, so no spare clothes either). She freaks out at the sight of poop in the cart, so I have to open the wipes and wipe it all off, meanwhile looking as to where I can throw all the dirty wipes away...NOWHERE but the bathroom, so they will have to sit in a nice pile in the cart while we go back to the toddler section so I can get Natalie a new outfit to change her into. Nessie doesn't want to buy new clothes because she doesn't like anything I show her until I convince her that her current outfit smells of poo and has poo all over and needs to be replaced...Then she agrees to get a purple shirt and pink shorts. Thank goodness, we have all the supplies, but oh the smell and sight of this spilled poo and it being all over her is a bit horrendous. I don't bother going through the checkout lane just yet as I need to get her changed right away, so we stroll towards the bathroom, I open the diapers, grab the wipes and new outfit and a nice pile of dirty wipes from the cart to throw away and we proceed into the bathroom for a major clean-up. 15-20 minutes later we emerge with a clean diaper, new outfit (had to take off the tags and keep them so I can pay for the outfit she is now wearing). Then I cleaned up the Target cart more thoroughly and now we were ready to proceed to check out! And decided to grab dinner at Target afterwards since we have spent slightly more time in that store than was planned and were running past dinner time. Phew. Did you know that Target trips can be so much fun? I sure didn't :)
Yeap, that is some grossology for you :) joy of parenthood, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Being there for my daughter when she needs me, being able to comfort her when she is scared or confused, that is something I wouldn't trade for the world!!!!
Below is the new unplanned outfit from Target...
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