Once she wakes up from her morning nap, Julia usually plays in her crib for a while. She talks to the bumpers, pulls up on the sides to look at the things on the floor, plays with lamb, throws her pacifiers around ... that sort of thing. The whole time she keeps up a sort of laughing babble that sounds a little bit like it could be a conversation if only we spoke her language. On weekends we'll often turn on the video monitor and just watch her entertain herself. Sunday Dave flipped it on and was laughing as Julia crawled from one end of her crib to the other over and over. I asked what she was doing and he said, "She's got two dark things that she throws back and forth." I said, "Oh, her pacifiers" and went over to watch. I tried to get a closer view and realized something. I took off running towards Julia's room while Dave called after me, "What? What did you see?" I couldn't answer because my brain just wouldn't wrap itself around the truth. I burst into her room and saw it--diaper discarded at one end of the crib and my bare butt daughter giggling at the other end as she flung her poo around like a delighted little monkey.
I grabbed her and handed her off to Dave to dump in the bath (so happy it happened when he was home!) while I took care of the things in the crib. He cleaned her up, ran new bath water and let her play while we took pictures.
Here she is all cleaned up, but don't let the cutie in the pictures fool you. (I'm wondering which side of the family she gets this from ... )
She looks so tiny in the big bathtub ... how could she have that much poo inside?
Clean, happy girl
Come here, little ducky. I wanna play.
Peek-A-Boo
Clean and dry with Daddy
4 comments:
I am so sorry. I am laughing, but I am so sorry. I have a girlfriend who has four children. 3 of them have done the poo playing bit. While mine have never (knock on wood!)played in their excrement, they do occasionally do the doo in the tub, where they immediately start screaming because it scares them. Ha! While I hate the clean up, I get a kick out of my kids being afraid of poop in the tub. Now, enough chat about that. On a cleaner note, Julia does indeed look like she is having a blast! Let the good times roll!!!
Now that it's over and I have a (so far) fool-proof plan for keeping her diaper on her (Yea for Bummis!), I find it really funny, too. :) But it would be nice if her poo scared her rather than being a playmate!
I ALMOST peed my pants! That is just too funny! That's my niece!! Um, I think I MIGHT know which side of the family that comes from... :)
Bathtime is much nicer without the hassle of tubs. Elena's enjoying the freedom too. We did buy this cheap no-slip, clear plastic grassy bathmat thing from Wal-Mart that helps keep their wet tushies in place - just an idea.
Yeah. We bought a tub mat thing as well after Julia slipped over backwards and clonked her head. Now she's a lot sturdier.
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