It's been a while since I've posted and I've got good excuses lined up. The computer has been acting crazed and only lets us online for several minutes at a time, so that's one viable reason I have been AWOL lately. Second, our schedules have been horrid--for a couple weeks Josh and I only saw each other for moments at a time as we passed off the kiddos. And the final reason...I'm just lazy. Good reason, right?
Both kids have amused/horrified me with inappropriate choices in food lately. The first incident occurred after a birthday party last weekend--Lucas brought his party favor bag into the car and asked if he could eat the candy while we drove home. I should have CHECKED the bag first--the party was for a four year old, so I just assumed (ass, u, me!! DUH!!) that everything in the bag would be Luc-friendly. A few minutes later he is crunching on something and he announces "this taste's funny" and Josh and I look back to discover he is consuming a LEAD PENCIL. I guess it does vaguely resemble a pixie stick or twizzler, but how he mistook it for food I do not know. Further more, he had taken at least four bites out of it--you would think after the first one was so untasty he would have given up. Apparently my child is not discriminating in his food choices. The only reason I can even be remotely amused by this situation now is that he didn't actually SWALLOW the pencil. In my horror I screamed at him and he immediately pointed out that he had spit the pieces onto the floor. I diligently climbed in the back of the car and found every piece (He ate off both ends, including the eraser...yummm, rubber?!?!?) I still debated calling poison control, but we monitored his behavior for the rest of the day and he seemed normal (for him). But we did have an intense talk about NOT ingesting non-food items. And asking mommy if in doubt. (And I learned my lesson...always check the friggin' goodie bag!)
The next incident was less heart-pounding scary for Josh and I--we were just plain grossed out and I am really just documenting it here so that one day I can use it as leverage/bribery against Alex with his future girlfriend (or boyfriend). I looked around this morning and he was happily munching on something in the den...since I hadn't given him a treat, I raced over to open his mouth and discover he was eating a giant clump of cat hair ball. Gag!!! I still want to retch just thinking about it. And Alex loves to give sloppy wet kisses....
3 comments:
Welcome back to the electronic world. Appetizing post :)
OMG! A cat hair ball? That is a new one to me. Both of my kids have eaten Poo. Peanut has eaten both hers and the dogs. I am pretty sure peanut stuck a roach in her mouth too, but we won't go into that. Luckily, her brother is slightly more discerning or we learned out lesson.
Ok I have had this problem with the goodie bag and pencils. With us it was the pencil sharpener that was killing me Raeden was trying to cut her finger off with it before I noticed. I thought that she was going to eat the choclate. Well I threw it away before we lost a finger. Hey is Leigh working at target? You are now working at charolette russe? I need to get back into retail. My works sucks. Miss you.
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