It had been a long day. Evelyn had and still has a rash that just won't seem to go away. So, I decided to let her air-out...during a nap. I laid her down in the crib with just a shirt on and left her that way. Then...I forgot about it. I had planned on putting one on about half way through the nap and then just plain forgot. I then went out on an errand with Mike. We received a call from his sister who was watching the baby when we were about 15 minutes away from the house. Mike said emphatically, "What happened?" I immediately grew concerned. I had visions of my resourceful daughter having found a way to fall out of her crib or something disastrous. He quickly told me that nothing bad had happened. Which of course did nothing to sooth my nerves. When he got off the phone he was laughing. "Did you put her in the crib without a diaper on!?!" My immediate response was one of defense. "She needed to air out. I meant to put one on later!" He still just looked at me with a big grin. "Well, she was playing with her poop. You let our daughter play with her own poop!" The car exploded with laughter.
Once that subsided though and I thought about what I had done; its just became one of those days that you wonder how you are ever going to be a parent. If you can forget to put your child's diaper on what else can you forgot?
To add to the failure of the day, Michael was playing with a little ball that Evelyn has. Its motion censored and had fun little songs. But my point in telling you what the does is that because of the hardware in it, they have made the plastic protecting it rather hard. So Michael is playing with it and kicking it around. He started trying to pop the ball up in the air...right next to Evelyn. And would you believe it, the ball popped up and decided to conk our daughter in the head. Mike felt so bad.
So in day, we allowed our child to poop in the crib and play with it and then just a few hours later we kicked her in the head with a ball. Can we be parents or what?
PS: There have been no mishaps since that day...two days ago. :)
4 comments:
Meg, hope it didn't end up in her mouth! Hahaha..Rico and I had to LOL with that one!!! My recommendation for the rash is just to change her every two hours. Miss you guys and see you next week. We were thinking about lava hot springs or yellowstone....wadda ya think?
Babies are tuffer than we know. :) I had one of those days a few days ago too...I've become a lot more cautios and paranoid mother since then. :)
I think you guys are awesome parents!
My mom could tell you some horror stories involving poop. They are pretty great. I know you want to hear them.
Oh my gosh! She is so cute! Looks like things are going well for you guys.
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