Mommin' It Up!

March 7, 2011

Up & Out

Since I had baby Jonah, it’s been quite a dance getting both he and Sophie ready in the mornings before I take Sophie to school Monday-Thursday. Sophie has to be there at 9:25, and I always try to leave the house by 9:10 even though it only takes 7 or 8 minutes to get there. See, I have this “thing” about being late. I HATE it, and it makes my blood pressure skyrocket if I think I am going to be late. SO. We try to be ready a wee bit early in the mornings “just in case”. This has resulted in me having to drive around the block a few times when we get to school, but it has pretty much worked out.

This morning, my anal-retentive need to be early REALLY paid off! Because when I picked Jonah up out of his bouncy seat to put him in his car seat, he had pooped through his clothes up to his shoulders. (My first thought was, well THIS is what I get for daring to take the time to eat breakfast and put on makeup! FOOL!)

Emergency!! Diaper change AND clothes change at the last minute! Plus I still had to get Sophie in her coat, hat, mittens, etc. Eep! Fortunately there was a laundry basket with clean clothes unfolded in the dining room (yes! my slacker housekeeping pays off!) so I didn’t have to run upstairs and dig through his drawers for an outfit.

I stripped him, gave his back, shoulders, and nether-regions a baby wipes bath, and got him changed and dressed. Then popped him in his car seat and got Sophie ready to go.

We were in the car by 9:14.

Shew! {wipes forehead}.

Oh, crap. (Pun intended.) I just remembered I still have his poop-covered clothes sitting out! Yikes! Umm…gotta go!

November 5, 2010

Nancy Drew and the Mysterious “Wet”

Remember Nancy Drew’s first case here at Mommin’ It Up? That was a doozy. And fortunately, it’s been a long time since we’ve needed the help of that savvy teenage detective. But yesterday, Sophie threw another mystery my way, and I’m gonna have to call in the big guns.

Soph and I were sitting in the living room shortly after noon when she decided to go upstairs. I figured she was headed up to her room to play with her dollhouse or read books and didn’t think a thing of it. But then about two minutes later I heard her yelling, “OH no! It’s TOO WET!”

Crap. That can’t be good.

I raced upstairs and found Sophie standing in front of the toilet with her pants and panties pulled down. “It’s TOO WET!” she said again? “What’s too wet?” I said. “Did you go pee pee in your pants?”

“No it’s too wet on your (she’s still got pronoun confusion) SHIRT.” She replied.

I moved in to investigate. Her pants and panties were dry, but she was wearing a long tunic-style shirt, and sure enough there was a small water spot on the back. It was oddly round, and about the diameter of a soup can.

I put her on the potty just in case, and noted that her lady parts were also dry. There was no toilet paper anywhere and it didn’t look like she’d gone potty yet. She told me she DID need to go pee pee and as she sat on the the pot, I began my interrogation.

“Did you already go pee pee?”

“No.”

“Do you need to go?”

“Yes.”

“Where did you get wet from? The sink or the potty?”

“The potty!”

And yet. There was no water splashed anywhere on the floor, her hands were dry, there was no water on the toilet seat.

She sat there a couple minutes but never did pee. And I never could figure out how she got wet! So we just changed her shirt and moved on. But dangit if I wouldn’t like to know. I was so curious I even SMELLED the shirt. (I’m an ace sleuth after all.) It didn’t really smell like pee. Maybe there was just a little water on the bathroom floor? I don’t know! The rest of that kiddo was bone dry!

So, Nancy and friends, where did the “mysterious wet” come from?

October 22, 2010October 21, 2010

A Tale of Two Blues

As I write this, I am extremely sleep-deprived and my Frigidaire Affinity washer & dryer are working OVERTIME. Why? Because this morning at 12:30 a.m., I heard the unmistakable sound of puking over the monitor in Sophie’s room. And, since we’d been to Cortney’s earlier in the afternoon where Sophie had consumed this navy blue cupcake, I KNEW it was going to be BAD!

It was baaaaaaad. Navy blue puke everywhere. On Sophie, for one, and in her beautiful hair, all over her PJ’s, her Dora sheets and pillow, her Eeyore blanket, and even some of her doll clothes for her Angelina Ballerina doll. (Not to mention the carpet, which my amazing husband steam-cleaned in the middle of the night AFTER we bathed Sophie.)

The Soph continued to spew blue (not the cupcake’s fault, I would like to say, she just got a bug somewhere) every 20-30 minutes for the next few hours. Finally about four in the morning she was blued-out and nothing was left and then we got the neon-yellow bile. She threw up continuously until 9 am, then things slowed down, but we still had several more incidents until 12:45 pm. I would estimate she threw up about 20 times during that period. Poor Sophie, who until this had thrown up probably only 3 or 4 times in her entire life, was totally confused and traumatized!

So, like I said. 6th load of laundry in. And I have at LEAST one more to go! Including the jeans I am wearing. (Hey, I have like, two pairs of maternity pants that fit! I am desperate! Quick setting, quick setting!) We were completely out of clean towels by 7 am. Did I mention how much I love the “quick” setting on my Frigidaire washer & dryer??

Pretty much all my favorite settings have applied throughout this day, especially Stain Clean and Sanitize! And since I have been awake now for oh…over 15 hours, I am very thankful that my Affinity dynamic duo are so easy to operate. I haven’t managed to screw up any of said loads…and I am a walking zombie, or in this case, a “mombie” (as my friend Cherry likes to say.) And the blue? Is gone! All of our laundry is blue-cupcake free.

So, I’ve been telling you about these great appliances for months now, and I think fate saw it fitting to give me something really EPIC to talk about for my GRANDE FINALE post!! Ah, well. Good enough. The appliances were worth it!

And do you think it’s a coincidence that they are BLUE??

frigidairewasherdryer — Blue looks GOOD on these machines!

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This post was written as part of my involvement with Mom Central Consulting in the Frigidaire Test Drive Mom team. Frigidaire gave me an Affinity Washer and Dryer and I reviewed the heck out of them, and loved every minute of it!