how? hydrogen peroxide.i have a litre bottle from when i used to colour my hair pale blonde, orange, blue, purple, red, pink, (oh, 3, 4 years ago).
now i turn to it to get baby poo off the carpet. what a full-circle moment.
the handy-hints sites say to remove solids, apply peroxide, then blot, then voila!
me? i removed solids, blotted with a fistful of toilet paper, applied peroxide, scrubbed it in with gloved fingers, blotted off with toilet paper. then repeated the last 3 steps (apply, scrub, blot) about 100 times until the whole (new) toilet roll was gone, making a mountain of baby meringues in his potty.
i had to flush the toilet 3 times to get rid of all of it.
then i went back with a sponge and a bucket of water. apply sponge, rinse in bucket and squeeze; repeat 10 times.
i THINK it's clean now..
how it happened in the first place was that he gave me that Look (internal, far away, vague stare) and muttered "Poo.Poo.", which is a month-old achievement and signals the start of our sort-of-toilet-training days. so i whisked off his nappy, wiped away the little turtle-head of hard poo which he had squeezed out, and showed it to him while singing "poo-poo-yay", thinking that was the end of it (in hindsight, very naive and foolish of me). then i started to look around for more tissue, and think about whether i should dash out to get his potty to show that to him too, when i heard the Plop. then little distressed sounds as he toddled toward the exit, as i've said.
anyway, the thing that made me think (and name this blog accordingly) was that i realised i've reached a whole new level of motherhood zen.
the whole time this was going on, even from the moment of "Plop!", where previously - i would have normally imploded in a 5-alarm harried stress madness, this time, all i had going on was - a (slow) turning of cogs in my mind (eg "okay. there's poo on the carpet. what to do now..")..
good changes..
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Oh J this is such a beautiful, honest and sad post. My heart is breaking reading your powerful words.
Not sure what else to say...but I did want to just let you know that my kids go bananas when they see me hug DH. And they see that all the time, so maybe it is yet another innate thing which is kinda annoying. So, don't worry that it is anything you did, I think kids just like to be the one being hugged, and feel a bit left out when they catch anyone else sharing affection. We try to encourage them to pile on, to try to get rid of that negative vibe, but it is 50/50 as to whether or not they will.
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