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Hey, it’s all good now
By Moriah on August 1st, 2008
I bought some new pajamas for Madeline a few days ago and she wanted to wear them yesterday, waaaaaay before it was time for bed. I said she could. She also wanted underwear instead of a pull-up. (Picky, picky.) I said that was fine, too.
You know where this is going, right?
Around 4 a.m. I woke up in a dreamy fog to a little person standing next to me whining in a tiny voice, “I’m all wet!”
Yeah – totally forgot to put a pull-up on her before I tucked her into her cozy little toddler bed last night. (Smack head with hand.)
She started herself a bath and I stripped and changed her bed. Adelaide, of course, woke up from all the commotion. Got her a bottle.
I finally had both girls settled down again in their beds and made a tired beeline for my own. A few minutes later Madeline reappeared, this time saying she had to poop.
So we dealt with that.
Went back to bed…
A few minutes later I heard more crying and whining. I went back in to her room to check on her; “I feel hot!” I felt her head, and it was a little warm. So I doled out some toddler chewable fever-reducing tablets and trudged back to bed, hoping I wouldn’t see her again ‘till morning.
I didn’t, although she did wake up a tad on the early side. Anyway, right after Andy left for work, I found her in the bathroom munching on Tums. I think she only had two or three at the most but I put in a call to Poison Control anyway. (It’s been a long time since we’ve called them; we were due for a chat.)
They said a one-time dose of thirty or forty tablets would have no effects. (Who knew?!) Perhaps a stomachache akin to eating too much candy. So that was a relief, since we were dealing with a quantity much, much less.
So, yes, I drained the contents of the coffee pot myself today. When he got home, dear Andy thought it in the family’s best interests to send me off to Starbucks alone, which is where I now sit, Vanilla Latte in hand.
I love that man.
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Good to know on the Tums. ;)
Your days sound so eerily similiar to mine sometimes…amazing what kids do that is so entertaining for others to read about!
~Janelle
Your husband is a wise man! Hope you enjoyed some down time…sounds like you definitely needed it.
Hope you slept well Last night.
We’ve been having troubles at night lately too.
I keep reminding myself, I survived infancy, I’ll survive this too!
(I’m presently writing with one hand, while eating mint ice-cream sandwiches with the other… it’s only 11 am. We all have our vices!)
Oh dear. What a day. That rivals mine. I hit a neighbor’s car among other things.
Hope your Starbucks jaunt helped perk you up.