Oh Miss Miah!

Where to start?

Monday morning we're getting ready for the day, everything is going smoothly, kids are ready, I showered the night before, I just have to run upstairs to brush my teeth and slap on some clothes 3 mins (literally). I come downstairs and check on the kids: Lochlan's reading books, check, Olivia's coooing in her chair, check and Miah is hmmm awfully quite. Another look confirms that Oh yes.... she's found the diaper cream and has decided to moisturize with the "cream"....hair, face, clothes and we don't want to leave out Maggie, she looks dry too! Oh and that carpet that Dad steam cleaned literally last night, well of course it needed a little something!

Tuesday Lochlan and I are playing in the Rec. Room and I hear noises on the stairs, Miah coming down from her nap. I go to say hello and realized she's commando. Ah oh! I run up stairs to her room and see a tiny bit of poop on the floor. Not too bad, not rubbed in. The sheets are clean nothing in the diaper. Phew. Miah's saying "poop potty" so I put her on...nothing. I go to put on a diaper and lift up her shirt and more poop falls out, lift it completely up and realize her chest and belly are covered, smeared in it. Gross! I bath her, put clean clothes on and then go to figure out how her stomach got covered in it when her hands and everything else are completely clean. I check the sheets, floor and then the new quilt, yes arrived last week from Canada, there it is. Not just on there but smeared in. She must have pooped then turned around and slid off the edge of the bed through the poop. Lovely!

Wednesday. Is it only Wednesday? The kids and I are upstairs. I'm doing laundry, Lochlan just went down stairs and Miah is playing with the toys. She comes along with a couple bath toys, but wait how did she get that soap in her hair? Oh well, it's probably just a few bubbles from the bath toy, wait a minute, that's not bubbles that's ???? - vaseline! But how did she get that? It was in the nursery closet and the closet door and the main door were closed (purposefully). So I check it out and sure enough the two doors are open (she has a new skill)and there's the jug of vaseline on the floor. Lucky for me that's it. Miah wants to go downstairs with Lochlan (who left the gate open)and starts down the stairs. No big deal she is pretty good on the stairs except lately she's been wanting to walk forward down the stairs which we have a lot of. She's about halfway there when I realize this and tell her to turn around, she looks up at me and turns at the same time which causes her to fall down the remaining stairs, I fly to the bottom of the stairs and pick her up, (she's crying but ok) just in time for the doorbell to ring, it's one of the neighbours from down the street, with her son...they've dropped in to play!

I'd like to also add that my couch has Crayola marker on it and the back of the bathroom door has crayon on it (bath crayons that are meant for the bath not doors!)......Oh Miss Miah!

In my defense, she has never bothered with any sort of cream until now and has just recently started opening doors. Hope your week has been better than mine!

Laura

PS here are a few pics of the kids.