Dorothy decided to be funny this morning. On the way to daycare, Elizabeth thought she heard a "sploort" sound from Dorothy. So once I got to daycare, I went to change her diaper. There was some poop, but it wasn't too bad. I'd cleaned her up and was just getting ready to put on diaper when she decided to pee.
OK, that's happened before. It's annoying, especially at daycare where they have doctor's-office rolls of paper on the changing pad, instead of a thicker, more absorbent cloth cover. But with some help from one of the daycare teachers, I got the paper out from under Dorothy, some fresh paper installed, and then went and cleaned up Dorothy again. I asked her if she thought she was being cute, by peeing while being changed.
Just as the daycare lady, Laura, was helping change the paper, though, Dorothy peed again. This time she managed to get Laura! Now Dorothy was really trying to be funny. :-P So Laura cleaned up her arms, and we got more fresh paper put down, then tried cleaning up Dorothy. At which point she peed for a third time!
By this point enough had soaked around on the paper each time so that her shirt was pretty wet. So we took that off and gave her an emergency bath in the sink! We put some soap and water in there, dipped Dorothy in, wiped her down, and borrowed a towel from the toddler room across the hall to try her off. Finally, she was clean, dry, and not peeing. I hurriedly slapped a diaper on her, and dressed her in one of the spare "emergency" onesies that we leave at daycare for just such emergencies.
So our Little Miss D was trying to be funny this morning. At least, that's what you'd think given the smiles and giggles she was making. :-)
Posted by Tom Nugent at August 4, 2004 11:16 PM