An Ultimate Poop Story of Our Very Own!

If you easily gag/throw up please do not read this posting. I warned you! Now first off if you have not heard the Burk's (friends in our ward) ultimate poop story you need to ask Jason, it's the most hilarious thing ever! Thankfully ours is no where near that bad! It all started Wednesday morning. I had put Claire down for her nap right about 10. She's been really fighting the morning nap this last week so she was pretty upset. I went and whipped up a cheesecake, tossed it in the oven, and took a shower. After about 45 minutes she was still crying pretty hard so I decided it was probably time to go grab her. I opened the door and the worst smell I have ever laid my nose on hit me like a ton of bricks. And then I saw it. Picture a gory horror movie but exchange the blood for poop and that's what it looked like. Claire had reached through the slats of her crib, pulled her garbage can closer and then grabbed her fresh poopy diaper, unwrapped it out of a little plastic bag, opened it up and went to town. There was poo in her hair, on her face & hands, all over her clothes, her crib, sheet, blankie, stuffed puppy, dirty clothes basket and little chunks had fallen all over the floor. She had even ripped her socks off so the poo had squished between her toes. YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!!!!!!! What's worse is that she loves grapes and for those of you that don't have kids yet, I'll just warn you now-the skins stay together. And even worse than that, she was so stinkin proud of herself. She was smiling from ear to ear and laughing! After I grabbed my jaw off the floor and decided that burning the house down probably wasn't the best idea, my brain started racing a million miles a minute trying to figure out how to clean this up and not have Claire cause any secondary damage. So I grabbed her and undressed her and keeping her as far away as I could, I carried her to the bath. While dressing her I called Levi and asked him to come home and help me and he said "Ummm yeah actually I'm super busy at work but good luck!" Thanks a lot hun! ;) After dressing her I put her down in the living room with some toys, closed her bedroom door and went to work. I used yellow dishwashing gloves (and yes I threw those things in the garbage the second I was done!) and disinfecting wipes. It was so nasty! It took me a good half hour (and who knows how many wipes) but I got it all and thankfully all the stains came out of her clothes. I opened the window and sprayed air freshener but I could still smell it all night! Levi said he couldn't smell it so apparently I just had poo particles stuck in my nose. Ick! Sorry you all had to hear about that, but hey, aren't you glad I didn't take a picture!?

In other, less-disgusting news... I surprised Levi with a little trip on the Mt Hood Railroad for his b-day. He loved it! We boarded the train at 10, stopped for lunch in a little cute town called Parkdale and then got back to Hood River just after 2. It was a beautiful day. Claire was pretty good but got a little crabby toward the end. Luckily I got her to sleep a little after lunch. Levi took some amazing pics. On our way home we stopped at the Vista House, it's just past Troutdale. It had the most amazing view I have ever seen of the gorge. You have to stop next time you're driving by!