Did I Ever Tell The Story About...
I just visited Meghan and read about wee Maggie's morning snack.
Kids are really disgusting little monkeys sometimes. From that first tarry poop hours after birth, parents find themselves dealing with a wide variety of nasty substances. I love it when I hear someone say "It's just sweet wittle baby poopies." After the first diaper blow-out, when they are covered in slime up to their armpits, the cute factor goes way, way down.
You do get used to it, though. At least, the normal stuff: diapers, runny noses, the occasional spit-up.
But then, you have the events like Miss Maggie's. I've got 900, but the one I thought of this morning took place when my oldest was just over a year old. She had a congested nose, so I took her into the shower with me to see if the steam would help. She stomped and giggled at my feet while I decided to chance a moment of inattention and wash my hair.
I tilted my head back, soothed by the water running past my ears. I stayed that way for a good minute. As I straighted up and opened my eyes, I was treated to the sight of my tiny daughter, nose running like a faucet of snot. She had her nose against the shower doors and was rubbing her face up and down, tongue pressed against the glass surface, gleefully licking her snot.
Her face made a sucking noise as I broke the adhesion of skin and snot from soap-scummy glass. She cried. I wanted to cry. It was gross, but funny.
Hang in there, Meghan.
Comments
Oh, the tarry first poops! What a pleasure. They stick like Spiderman, too. The other night my son suddenly threw-up at the dinner table. The sight of it filling up his bowl completely and then running all over the table was...gross?! That's an understatement! Things you never forget, but don't really want to, becasue it's all part of the wonderful responsibility of parenting.
Posted by: Jason Berggren | August 12, 2005 1:47 PM
lmao!
Posted by: Christie | August 12, 2005 8:27 PM
A friend who has no children once sent me an e-mail detailing a very large, itchy rash she had recently been suffering from. At the end, she asked, "TMI? Is that gross?"
I replied, "Honey, I'm a mom. I've seen it all and held most of it in my hands at some point."
Gross is relative.
Posted by: EverydaySuperGoddess | August 12, 2005 9:21 PM
This is my first visit to your blog via other bloggers.. I couldn't have been more pleased with my first post exposure - LOL!! We just had a snot-sucking-glass moment only two days ago. Life is beautiful!!
Posted by: Holli | August 13, 2005 7:06 AM
hahahahaha....eeeeeewwww...hahahahaha!
Oh my, thats a good one!
These kiddies can sure be gross!
Just changed a BLUE poopy diaper. I let her go hog wild with the fresh blueberries last night. It was quite shocking!
Posted by: meghan | August 13, 2005 8:52 AM
Ok I think I peed my pants a little just then, I laughed so hard!
Posted by: Candice | August 13, 2005 6:20 PM
Oh my, so funny. I was just thinking along those lines this evening, when my son grabbed a piece of popcorn off the sticky, grimy, absolutely disgusting floor at the ballpark and popped it in his mouth before I could catch him. Thanks for the post, and I'll wait with bated breath for a snot incident of my own (this is the only bodily fluid that he has yet to gross me out with).
Posted by: me | August 14, 2005 8:38 PM