He, Joseph, likes to test boundaries and see what he can get away with between Mom and Dad. If he's mad he will scream and hit the air or you if you are close enough.
I was telling my Mom, that yesterday morning he was mad because we didn't carry him when he wanted and got mad...very mad...on the floor crying mad. So when Mark finally picked him up...he slapped him in the face! Mark scolded him and said not to hit and the the water works began...with a lot of feeling...and the cutest face ever! As I retold my Mother this story she reminded me that he doesn't know why we are scolding him and he gets very hurt, we should just re-direct him and he will eventually learn not to hit when he is mad. Nice advice coming from my Mother...who by the way has NO patience...NONE...except with Joseph. I laughed and said I knew he didn't understand but we still had to correct the behavior. I'm sure Mark's parents have had a similar experience with Mark when he was little. Mark SWARES he NEVER got in trouble...but with what I have seen with his personality and temper...I'm sure there were a few times he did get in trouble. Probably not as often as I did but he did get in trouble.
Testing of the gag reflex...
So this morning we were watching the morning news; Joseph and I were cuddling and he went "big potty" in his diaper as he usually does in the morning. So when Mark came to change his diaper and get him ready for "school" (daycare) I said, "Joseph, did you go poop?!?" He nodded "No" as he always does and Mark proceeded to change him. As soon as the PJ's came off...I SAW IT! Poop all over the side of his leg & on the PJ's! I quickly told Mark to stop and we got a towel for him to lay on so we could clean up the mess. Mark kept saying, "This is GROSS!! This smells!! How can you not be gagging?!?!?" I calmly looked at him and said "It's not too bad...just wait until he does it in the car seat and it's EVERYWHERE and you can't stop to fix it!" Little does he know that I WAS gagging and ready to puke all over the place!!
"Mom, did you have to tell that story?!?!"
The joys of Parenthood!! Here is a challenge for the readers that follow us...in the comment section please relay what trying or gross experience you have had with your own children/siblings/babysitting. I'm interested to see what y'all have to say!!
Happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend!!
The most gag-inducing thing I ever had to do was change a two-year-old's diaper that was beyond full and was about the make the breaking of Hoover dam look like a tiny leak. Let's just say I had to strip the shoes off, carefully peel off the soaked (with diarrhea) pants, put my feet as far apart as possible so as not to get in the splash zone and then hope for the best as I carefully peeled off the diaper trying not to spill it's overflowing contents onto the floor, myself or the overly-interested classmates on the way to the trash bin. Gross.
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