Aug 07 2007
Because a Mommyblogger’s Favorite Subject is Poop, Right?
My house today ~ 1pm to 1:20pm…
Me to demanding two year old: You’ll have to wait a minute. I’m going to the bathroom
Me to demanding two year old 5 seconds later: P, please…I’ll be done in a minute and then I’ll get it for you.
Me to demanding two year old 5 seconds after that: I’M POOPING!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
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Older Child: Mommeeeeee! Help me! I went poop and it’s all smearish. I need a baby wipe!
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Me to two year old: NO! No, no no! Do NOT put the Little People in the potty! There was poop in there a second ago!!!
Never thought you’d spend so much of your time discussing the bathroom, didja?
The first scene is replayed in my house daily. I always find myself yelling through the door “I have a right to poop without carrying on a conversation! Now go find something to do!” Ahhh, kids.
I have a 10 year old and still regularly have that exact conversation “I’m in the BATHROOM. You can WAIT.” *sigh*
I keep a list of posts like this for when people ask me why I didn’t have children….
Heh. Yeah, I’m about to post next week about the bathroom discussions lately in our house, too. Because, you know, I’m a mommyblogger, too!
Heh. Sounds just like our house, except with slightly older kids putting a slightly older spin on poop and poop jokes.
Heh. Around my house lately it’s been, “Mommy I pooped in my pants.” Because apparently the thing to do after being trained for two months is to decide you don’t like the potty and to soil at least 6 pairs of underwear a day….
OMG the 2 yo sense of urgency is like to drive me out of what’s left of my mind…
Julie
Ravin’ Picture Maven
I thought we were the only household who had these conversations!!!!!!
We are all in love with the froggy wipes from KanDo!
Everyone has a poop story…love the poop story!
Once I went to the bathroom with my daughter’s, my son’s and my dog’s heads all lined up in the door, watching (waiting). And the cat sitting on my lap. Oh well. Hey, any day you don’t have to plunge, too, is a good one, right?
And why is it that the one time they need us the most is when we’re just trying to have a little time alone in the bathroom to do our business?
I have a nine and a twelve year old and I’m still telling them to leave me alone when I’m in the bathroom. There is something about when I’m in the “office” or on the phone that they NEED the most things done. Why is that?
Yup. That is it. In a poopshell.
Dear Lord, it’s all so familiar! All about the poop. Except on days like today, when it’s all about the barf. Which at least is *different*…
Thanks for the laugh.
ha ha, Declan knows if the door is shut - DO NOT ENTER.
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Too funny! I think regardless of age (mine are 8 and 10), the phone, bathroom and shower possess an invisible magnetic field when I am using them that causes my girls to use that particular point in time to discuss big issues with me or just go into fits of loud sibling rivalry insanity. Hang in there, though it realy doesn’t get much better!
Remember when going to the bathroom was a solitary activity?
Yah, me neither.
oh man…this happens way too much at our house too.. :)
The words “the toilet is not a toy” come out of my mouth much more than I’d like.
I FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL you. (up. heh.)
Doesn’t get much better, mine are 6 and 9. They usually wait until I am in the shower for a crisis “I need you to….”
We have 1 phrase that are said way too much in our house
“RIGHT NOW!!!” (as in “get over here right now”)
and “right now??” (as in “you want me to help you with your book report right now??”)
This is so refreshing! My favorite subject IS POOP but my co-mommy-blogger doesn’t like talking about it as much. But my life is about POOP. So I looooove talking about it. So I just cover all the poop and she takes other hilarious topics. Like bathing oneself in breastmilk and such.
Thank God for bleach. And I just IMd my husband about our daughter’s evening poop. Lovely! ;)
lol…this is probably the reason I had one child.
heheheh…I am laughing at Jessica’s comment:
I keep a list of posts like this for when people ask me why I didn’t have children…”
When my now-12-year-old was 2, I was on the phone with a client, and my daughter picked up the extension in the kitchen. I told her to hang up, b/c Mommy was on a work call. She said, “Okay. But can you please come wipe my butt — I pooped a lot!” Someday, that story will go in my book, “The crazy things that happen when you’re a work-at-home mom.”
LOL I lurve you Izzy. Taggin’ ya for a MeMe cause of it!
I took my son out for ice cream the other day and we went to the restroom to wash our hands. He proclaimed it smelled “yucky” in there, so we did the cursory rinse and bolted. While we were walking out of the shop, he says rather loudly “It smells like poopie in here!”. I just averted my eyes and quickly ushered him out the door before laughing my ass off. Good thing it wasn’t the ice cream parlor closest to my house!
I never gave much thought to quiet pooping moments until I had a baby. Because ‘alone time’ in the bathroom is just not an option.
Poop, poop, poop…can we talk about something else?
Please?!?!?!?!?!?
:)
Yep, it’s all about the poop! ;)
Wow, I feel for you. This sounds about how conversations in my house go. Poop talk is really on the rise because we are on the ” tail end ” of potty training with my youngest. She just declared about 2minutes ago she had pooped and needs my assistance. Gotta Go!
love poopie stories :)
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Cheers
Marko Fando