Oh Poop!

When you have kids, it seems everything in the world revolves around POOP! (or going potty) I feel I’m always asking things like, “Do you have to poop? Did he go poop? Why hasn’t he gone poop? Does this poop look right to you? How’s it possible for that much poop to come out of such a small boy?”…you get the picture. I also don’t get what it is with potty etiquette in my house. No one ever tells you that, as a parent of boys, you will have to do things like hold down their “Mr. Peepers” for them if you don’t want pee to shoot out everywhere. (In case you’re wondering, “Mr. Peepers” is what we affectionately call it in our house.) Seriously though, those things are like guns firing at will! And with absolutely no aim!

This morning my youngest son, who had already had a time out for peeing all over the front of the toilet earlier, began to yell, “Mommy! I pooped!” (Which really means: Mommy, get down stairs and wipe me!) As I headed towards the bottom of the stairs I saw my child rounding the corner butt- naked. He saw me and said, “Mommy, I pooped, you have to wipe my butt.” Just as I began to ask him why he was completely naked, running around the house and NOT waiting for me in the bathroom, he proceeded to turn around showing me quite an amazing sight. He had a HUGE glob of toilet paper (with a longer string of T.P. hanging from it) stuck between his butt cheeks! Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that there was a MASSIVE amount of poop smeared ALL OVER IT! As he began to stick his hand in it, I freaked out yelling, “STOP! DON’T TOUCH IT!” I did however manage to get him back to the bathroom and all cleaned up. Just another day in the life of two young boys learning to potty I guess. Good times…good times…