Some toddler tantrums are so bad I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than deal with them, but a lot of them are just laughable. To be fair they get worse as they get older so I will no doubt not find my son's outbursts as funny in a year's time. But right now his tantrums are delightful, especially compared to his older sisters' ones.
This photo is from the other day when I shut a door and the world ended but it's not the reason for the post. This photo was just preferable to a photo of smudged shite, as today we had a "poo-gate" moment. I say "a" because we've had numerous with each child by now.
I was dropping off the dirty dishes in the kitchen and had left the toddler (sans nappy as they were all just about to get into the bath) with the older two in front of the TV when I heard my eldest yelp.
"MAMMA!!! Come quick! Elis is HOLDING POOOOO!!"
I ran in, and he was indeed holding poop. To be fair it was nowhere near the scene I'd pictured in the seconds it took me to get to the living room. I'd imagined a horrible mess, shite smeared all over carpet, sofa and child. But no, my youngest was just standing there holding a perfect, firm poop sausage in his hand. He looked triumphant. The poo had the kind of firm look about it (I'm fairly good at judging poos what with 3 children and 2 dogs I spend a lot of my day handling poo) that I thought I'd be able to remove easily enough from his grasp.
Oh what a fool I was. It was firm alright. The child, however, was NOT letting go. His original, gentle grasp of it turned into a ever stronger clench and his whole body joined in as his lungs let out the beginnings of the roar of a tantrum. This mess-free, rather perfect looking poop turned into mush in his hand, soon it was in both hands, all over my hands, all over him.
All the while the 5 year old is freaking out "Oh my God there's poo everywhere!" ... I don't think the 3 year old registered the event at all.
Somehow I got him clean without getting my clothes covered and all kids happily settled in the bath. Where my eldest still was upset about it all until I burst out laughing and told her about the time I had left her in her cot without a nappy for less than a minute and came back to her examining her own shit, about to shove it in her mouth. That was one of those moments where I had ninja reflexes and somehow managed to avoid a more disgusting situation than I already had.
I neglected to tell her about the umpteen times she shat in the bath as a toddler... Strangely something her siblings never have but she was super prone to (sorry beautiful first-born!). Just so our middle child doesn't feel left out, she was a trooper at pooping as a baby. No brand or size of nappies could hold them in - luckily for all of us it got tidier once we potty trained her.
Anyway, toddler tantrums are knackering but they are also very funny a lot of the the, even when there's shite everywhere.
What are some of your favourite toddler tantrums? Was it funny at the time? (I was laughing throughout today's drama, but I could just as easily just have been swearing. He just got me in the right mood)
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