Messes. They're a part of everyday life when you have kids. It's just part of growing up. But I had always heard stories from my other mommy friends about "the one" which I considered to be the worst kind, and I was so glad that I had managed to avoid it so far for the most part. Until this weekend.
Over the past 2 days nap time has turned into an incredibly smelly and awful finger painting adventure, and we're not talking about the nice finger paints made by Crayola. Yah, that kind. The wall, which has a gorgeous scene of a mountainous beach island was greatly enhanced today, and we had to use various forms of scrubbing bubbles and scrubby wipes and over 45 minutes worth of muscle power to clean the mess. The floor. The crib. Some books. The carpet, even across the room. Pooh bear. Bedding. The walls (worst of all!) Oh, and not the mention the child! Yep, he got a good scrubbin' and a brisk shower, too.
So I found and ordered something which should be a helpful solution, which we may have to consider using during the daytime nap as well: footless zipper one piece pj's. Hanna Andersson and Gymboree don't make them in a large enough size (just up to 3T, not big enough!), but leave it to our friends at the Gap and at Wal-Mart online to save the day. Those folks down in Bentonville are smart folks, ya know, selling a 2 pack for less than $10. Footless one piece pj's can be zipped up backwards to save the day. A little Colin Houdini will have 100% blocked access to 1) strip and to 2) access any finger painting supplies. Because. That's. Gross.
5 comments:
On the bright side, at least you had Matt at home to help and you weren't going to grab him up from his nap and head out the door to an appointment. I hope Walmart.com is fast-----Mom
oh my my my...I am so sorry! Elisabeth has also started the strip tease act upon waking and the zipper is no road block. I am happy you mentioned the backwards jammie trick-genius!
Oh that is HORRIBLE I can only hope and pray I never have such an adventure!
Oh my goodness!! I was holding my breath as you got to the point hoping you didn't have to go through that---and sure enough you did! So glad you found a solution---who knew Wal-Mart would ever save the day??
I've fortunately avoide this one so far. But i can totally see Ethan doing this at some point. Beware though, I had a friend whose niece figured out how to get out of them backwards. Her mom had to pin the zipper, I think.
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