After four kids I thought I had seen everything disgusting that was possible involving poop. There are the incidents I’ve posted about before involving the swimming pool, at the McDonald’s play place, in the washing machine, and at the zoo. And now I can add another – the bathtub.
We did the usual triple bath last night – all three boys in the tub at the same time. It can get crazy and cause a mess, but it’s the quickest way to get baths over with. Thing 3 likes to has to stay in the tub until all the water is out. Even then it’s a fight to get him to come out. This kid loves water.
He was sitting in the tub, with no water, when I was helping Thing 2 brush his hair. When I looked back at the tub, whoomp! there it was. I had my iPhone handy to snap a photo for this post but I thought I’d spare you all and leave something to the imagination. Since he isn’t potty trained I tried to turn it into a teachable moment. “Poop goes in the potty. “ He wasn’t very impressed. I fear we’re in for more of these adventures as he goes through potty training. Does anyone know a potty training “expert” I can call?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Dad is in the House // Apr 16, 2010 at 9:23 am
Oh, man, I have no words of comfort. We still get poop in the tub and we’re nominally potty trained. I’m just happy when it doesn’t get played with.
2 Ben // Apr 18, 2010 at 2:45 am
My son went through a phase of shooting brown torpedos in the bath every time. I retched so much trying to fish that bad boy out!
3 rachel // Apr 20, 2010 at 4:51 pm
lol i have 5 kids 3boys and 2girls and the potty thing is not so easy been going at it for weeks and its amazing how they know they have pottied in their diaper but wont go to the toilet i have taken them and sat them on it and they cry
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