As many know, I have 2 little boys who like to take diapers off. When Jack was a baby (as I've written before) we had many a poop messes. Now Luke is at the stage where he doesn't want to wear a diaper, period. Sneaky kid thinks his parents are dumb! We didn't even mess around with "what to do" because we've been there and done it! So today, I'm going to make this blog about the different ways that were suggested and we've tried to keep a diaper on our crazy children:)
1. Put on a onesie. If you child is as creative and smart as my boys, they'll reach up underneath the bottom snaps, take off the diaper and keep the onesie fully intact! That's right ladies and gentlemen, I have 2 Baby Houdinis!
2. Put pants on the kid. Again, my boys are just too smart and independent for this one. They just take them off!
3. Put the diaper on backwards. Because todays diapers are contoured, this is a bad idea. It's rather difficult to change a toddler let alone have them lay on their belly and let you strap a new diaper to them!
4. Duct tape the tabs. This worked great for us for several weeks with both boys. However, they are little stinkers and figured out how to pull it off. With Jack we decided to combine #3 and #4 for a while and it worked for a bit. He figured out that you can just rip the sides and off comes the diaper. Maybe because that's the way we took them off. Monkey see, monkey do.
5. 360 degrees of duct tape. Now this is my favorite. Who doesn't like to put a ring of tape around their kid, making sure that it's not too tight or touches their skin. If that's not bad enough the dang tape will stick to itself. This does seem to be the most effective, yet a royal pain in the ass.
So if you see a little blonde headed boy running around with a duct taped diaper...he's mine! You may ask yourself, "Robin, why are you doing yet another poop post?" Well my dear readers, if you misplaced your duct tape for a day and had to change/clean crib not once but twice in one day I think you'd be rather pissed and need to vent. Not to mention all the times he took off his diaper in the living room. Last night, Luke took off his diaper and before I could reach him he peed in the diaper. He was standing up and peeing into his diaper laying on the floor! All I'll say is the boy needs to really work on his aim. We are sitting on the potty, but haven't had any results in the last week. But we will continue to try as long as he's willing to try. Oh little boys, the stories I'll have for you! Paybacks are, well, going to be fun for me:)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Bloody boys
When Jack was about 8 months old he climbed out of his crib and landed face first on the uncarpeted floor. Being a first time Mom at the time, I was scared. I didn't know that little kids' noses are really hard to break because their bones are soft til about 2. So we made an ER trip. That was my first experience with a little boy having a bloody nose, or bloody anything for that matter.
Well, now a days I don't just have to worry about one nut. Why oh why would God only give me one crazy kid. I already know how to deal with it, so he added another. Nowadays, I'm a pro. A couple of months ago, Luke and Jack were "measuring" with the tape measurer, when it was snapped closed. It sliced Luke's little finger right at the knuckle. It had filled up a papertowel and finally the bleeding stopped with some ice cubes. I knew he would rip it open again because it was pretty deep and come on, he's a Snyder boy! I knew a trip to the hospital was stupid, so I looked around and couldn't find what I needed, so I called up my friend, got what I needed came back and applied the miracle cure...SUPER GLUE! That's right, I super glued his cut closed after I cleaned it with peroxide. I know crazy mom, but I knew what would happen if I didn't.
This evening, Luke being a big boy, climbed on the couch. I can't tell you how many times we've yelled at the boys to not climb on the couch. Jack is known to do somersaults off the arm of the couch, they both like to climb over and dangle. Tonight Luke climbed over the back and just fell to the ground. Normally, he would just get up, go around and try again (unless he got caught by the mean Mommy!). This time however he started crying. Since we were webcamming with my Mom, Zach picked him up and brought him over to me. We're sitting there minding our own business when the boy opens his mouth and blood starts pouring out of his mouth! Since we're now pros at this, I quickly checked to make sure his teeth were ok and it was just something small. Zach walked into the kitchen, got some papertowels and ice. Turns out the kid bit his tongue on impact. He now has two little gashes on the top of his tongue. After sucking on an ice cube for 2 minutes, he's up and playing. I'm now so good, that the only blood is a dime size on my shirt.
The best advice anyone has given me about raising kids came from my Mother-in-law. Before Jack was born she told me that "babies bounce". That simple. I won't tell you how much I've repeated this to myself over the years! Kids are amazing. When they fall, your reaction (gasp, freak out, etc) usually scare them more than the actual fall. If you've been around me with the boys, I usually tell them to brush it off. I do my freak out inside because if I'm acting like a crazy person, who's in charge? (Sorry for the little parenting tip, but I've had a couple of people ask me why my boys don't cry unless they're really hurt.)
I'm hoping to start blogging more often, but if I wrote down every insane thing my boys did, I would be sitting at the computer all day everyday because it's never ending.
Well, now a days I don't just have to worry about one nut. Why oh why would God only give me one crazy kid. I already know how to deal with it, so he added another. Nowadays, I'm a pro. A couple of months ago, Luke and Jack were "measuring" with the tape measurer, when it was snapped closed. It sliced Luke's little finger right at the knuckle. It had filled up a papertowel and finally the bleeding stopped with some ice cubes. I knew he would rip it open again because it was pretty deep and come on, he's a Snyder boy! I knew a trip to the hospital was stupid, so I looked around and couldn't find what I needed, so I called up my friend, got what I needed came back and applied the miracle cure...SUPER GLUE! That's right, I super glued his cut closed after I cleaned it with peroxide. I know crazy mom, but I knew what would happen if I didn't.
This evening, Luke being a big boy, climbed on the couch. I can't tell you how many times we've yelled at the boys to not climb on the couch. Jack is known to do somersaults off the arm of the couch, they both like to climb over and dangle. Tonight Luke climbed over the back and just fell to the ground. Normally, he would just get up, go around and try again (unless he got caught by the mean Mommy!). This time however he started crying. Since we were webcamming with my Mom, Zach picked him up and brought him over to me. We're sitting there minding our own business when the boy opens his mouth and blood starts pouring out of his mouth! Since we're now pros at this, I quickly checked to make sure his teeth were ok and it was just something small. Zach walked into the kitchen, got some papertowels and ice. Turns out the kid bit his tongue on impact. He now has two little gashes on the top of his tongue. After sucking on an ice cube for 2 minutes, he's up and playing. I'm now so good, that the only blood is a dime size on my shirt.
The best advice anyone has given me about raising kids came from my Mother-in-law. Before Jack was born she told me that "babies bounce". That simple. I won't tell you how much I've repeated this to myself over the years! Kids are amazing. When they fall, your reaction (gasp, freak out, etc) usually scare them more than the actual fall. If you've been around me with the boys, I usually tell them to brush it off. I do my freak out inside because if I'm acting like a crazy person, who's in charge? (Sorry for the little parenting tip, but I've had a couple of people ask me why my boys don't cry unless they're really hurt.)
I'm hoping to start blogging more often, but if I wrote down every insane thing my boys did, I would be sitting at the computer all day everyday because it's never ending.
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