in keeping with the potty theme
If you see your one year old and 3 year old sitting, playing with their tiny tea set, complete with water for tea you have two choices:
1) say “Oh, how cute”
And then go on with your day in blissful ignorance while they happily play and entertain themselves, or
2) say, “Where did you get that water?”
And then freak out when you realize they are drinking water from the toilet. Spoil the fun by taking away the entire tea set and sterilizing it in the sink in hot bleachy water. Strip their toilet watery clothing off. Consider washing out their mouths with soapy rags, but then decide against it and so vow not to kiss them on their mouths for the entire day. Wash the floor where they were sitting as well as the trail of water that leads right back to the bathroom where you spy the toilet brush in the toilet bowl like a huge stirrer, because the toilet did not have enough germs on it’s own. Dry heave a few times. All while the children cry and carry on because the water was “a-whish-ious”
If you are faced with this same scenario, chose option 1. That is my advice for today.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I prefer the cover-my-eyes/ears and say “la la la” approach as well.
Nobody makes me laugh when I’m sitting all by myself (good thing the men in white coats aren’t watching) like you, Chris!
August 21st, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Hee hee, I’ll never forget the first time that happened at our house. My first thought was, “oh, how cute” followed by “wait a minute, you can’t reach any of the sinks in this house” followed by “ew ew ew ew ewwwwww!”
August 21st, 2006 at 3:16 pm
I accidentely forgot to put a diaper back on my eight month old son one day and when I found him again he had gone #2 and WAS EATING IT! I did not kiss him for maybe three weeks. Most nauseating parenting moment.
August 21st, 2006 at 3:20 pm
My girls like to “play” with the dog’s water bowl. That grosses me out a but bit it’s not as bad as the tea time with the toilet water! At least you have a sense of humor about it…that’s the key to parental sanity, I think!
August 21st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
*chortling*
Oh, hi, I’m one of your lurkers coming out of the blogwork. Love your stuff and love your adorable kids! =)
Thanks for the advice. I’ll keep that in mind when Lochlan is old enough to figure out toilet water is “a-whish-ious.”
August 21st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Ok, so I think I just did a few sympathy dry-heaves. The toilet brush….ew! Reminds me of when my older brother and I were young and thought the toilet plunger’s super suction cup action was so cool and carried it around the house sticking it to the walls and then pulling it back off, hanging on it, etc. There must have been poo-juice rings on every surface of the house by the time mom found us.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:42 pm
[...] I have somevery helpful time and aggravation saving advice. Posted on August 21, 2006 by Chris @ 1:42 pm [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Oh thank God. I thought the punchline was going to be “…. and you find the water is actually their own urine”.
Which happens.
Hey look at the time I really ought to be going now…..
August 21st, 2006 at 6:16 pm
I…
*gag*
… ummm, it’s just…
*gag*
… nevermind….
*hork*
August 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Oh, my goodness, that’s one of the funniest (and I know, grossest) things I’ve heard in a long time! I hear “experts” say that the bathroom is actually cleaner and more bacteria-free than the kitchen, but I have yet to see any proof.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Oh my. NASTY! But so hysterically funny that I too am coming out of lurkdome to dry heave with everyone else.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:12 pm
As the mother of a toddler who LOVES the toilet (for play, not uh…elimination) I must concur. Choice number one will be the real sanity saver.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Would that same sage advise be to think that the brown goo that is fingered painted on the wall is adorable and creative?
I had to read this out loud to the fam.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:05 pm
oh, ill.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Blek, blek, blek…gagamaggot.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Oh dear god in heaven . . .
August 21st, 2006 at 9:21 pm
HA HA HA! Oh dear goodness! That is so(not) funny!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Oh yes, the ever popular “Princess and the Pee.” ;^) I hope next time they ask you for some sanitary, filtered “a-whish-ious” water for their tea party.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:54 am
Oh, uck!
But the “a-whish-ious” is just too cute!
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:25 am
That’s why i rarely drain the water after the bath in the morning. They can wash their own hands after using the toilet mainly. But at least I know that play water isn;t from the toilet. Not that drinking it from the bath would be any less gross but….nevermind.
I choose ignore it.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 am
Ugh, mental note to self: Don’t read Chris’ blog when you’re eating breakfast!!! But OMG woman, you are a riot. God bless those ankle-biters for giving you so much funny fodder for your blog!
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:35 am
BWHAHAHA!
That is so funny! And gross! And funny. And a-whish-ous.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:17 pm
“Don’t drink the toilet water” is such a knee jerk response around here. Kinda like “don’t jump on the couch” and “don’t bite your sister.” I’m a terrible mother… hehe
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
I love how you can take a horrible situation like that and make it sound really really funny! I can totally picture everything that happened. Funny, gross, eww, funny. haha!
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
You do know that the toilet is probably cleaner than the kitchen sink?
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Kids have a way of grossing us out down to the CORE, don’t they?
I’ll never forget the time my then-toddler awakened me at 2:00 a.m. He was chewing on something. And he was very, very cold. I pried the something out of his mouth, only to find something big and brown. And then I realized… OMG, hd had gone out to the backyard via the DOGGY DOOR (in the dead of winter, thank God it’s a California winter - but still!) and was eating a big ol’ piece of *dog poop*.
I can’t even type that without shuddering, and it’s been 9 years now.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:59 pm
What’s even worse is having company, and having the company play along with the tea party and take a little sip of “tea” to be polite…then finding out that the water came from the toilet.
I never saw a sip of water shoot so fast out of anyone’s mouth.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:05 am
Oh, my… I’ve banned water from our tiny tea sets. I’ll feel smug for a while, knowing that’s I’ve outwitted them….
And then I’ll come to my senses. LOL!!!!!!!!!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:15 pm
I take it all back, I do not want to have kids, please take mine away!
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:50 pm
I was grossed out when I realized my 2 yo twins and 3 yo sister were spitting in the cups and sharing them. Also, they would make countless trips to thier “water cup” and run with a full mouth. I’ve cleaned those toy dishes dozens of times!!! And that was one of the “better finds”.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:34 am
I am seriously LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!!
OMG!
That was sooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!
August 27th, 2006 at 3:57 am
I don’t know which was funnier, the post or the comments. Either way I have tears streaming down my cheeks. Thanks for the stress relieving laugh!
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