Thanks to everyone who entered the Poop Story Contest. I’m not sure if it helped me or not, to know how common these stories are, but I imagine I can handle whatever Sophia might surprise us with next. This contest isn’t a traditional contest with place winners and prizes, it is more about sharing. Here are the highlights…
One theme was leaks. No matter how sophisticated we get with out trips to the moon and our iPhones, we still haven’t mastered a diaper that doesn’t leak. There were..
- A leak you don’t realize
- You leak on it, you buy it
- All in good fun
Something you hear about but can’t really know until it happens to you is the projectile throw up or poop. What power comes from such little bodies! Like this one…
- When wipes aren’t enough and you need a shower
I especially liked a theme that emerged around airports. Maybe there is an energy to airports, of change and displacement and being out of the routine, that inspires our little ones to make such a mess. There were three airport poop stories…
- Thank goodness for blankets
- What are you looking at?
- Pack a change of clothes in your carry on
Do ya’ll remember the TV show Northern Exposure? Do you remember an episode when Chris, the town DJ, was stealing car stereos? When he was caught, he said he was doing it to remind people not to be so attached to material things and to learn to accept the challenges that life will bring them. Well, maybe that is the reason our babies surprise us with their messes. Just when we think we have a routine and we are managing quite well, they remind us to not get to comfortable and to be ready with lots of wipes.
