Thing One and Thing Two

[LemonDroppe]

I understand that someone else here at Lit has a pair of these, as do I. Here's what my things were up to last night...

Thing One, age 5 1/2, had homework for kindergarten. We were fingerpainting a picture of a turkey. Thing Two, age 2 1/2, was invited to help.

2 decided he would fingerpaint the chair. He was immediately banned and sent to play with his father.

1 and I continued to paint, when a few minutes later I caught the unmistakeable whiff of... poo. You parents know what I mean.

Now, Thing 2 is potty-trained, but still occasionally has accidents. I went to check on him in his room.

And screamed.

A pile of poo was on the floor. But that wasn't the worst. He had taken HANDFULS of it and fingerpainted the walls. There were streaks of poo on nearly every spot that was less than 3 feet high.

I was shaking. "Do you know how mad Mommy is right now?"

He looks up at me, big blue eyes, little brown hands, and says,

"Why?"

 

[freakygirl]

lmao
Ok, from a strangers point of view.. this is one of the funniest things I've "heard" in a long time.. from the mothers point of view.. the little shit (pun intended) (I would have had to leave the room to avoid getting really really mad)

My husband had a similar experience.. his daughter and son are just a tad less than a year apart. (one born on Feb 8 89 and one born Feb 3 89). When they were real little and still in cribs.. Tommy would skoot his crib over to the opposite side of the room, to get to his sisters crib (Tommy is the younger of the two, but was MUCH larger). He'd rock back and forth in order to get his crib where HE wanted it.

Anyway, Husband got up really early to head out to work. He happened to go by the bedroom door and hear the kids giggling. Tommy was without a diaper.. and they were "painting" anything and everything.. including themselves

Hubby woke his ex wife up.. told her about.. and being the typical male he is.. he left for work

I have never had to deal with this.. I guess my kids are saving their poop fetishes until they are older

 

[modest mouse]

I have said this in threads of a similar nature but its worth saying again.

I enjoy having a dog.

 

[SweetCherry]

LMAO

Don't feel bad. My brother and sister-in-law had this happen when their 3 year old grandson stayed with them for a while. I'm thankful that the worst my kids have done is color on the walls with permenant marker.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Fingerpainting with poop

I feel your pain, Lemondroppe. My 2-1/2 year old twins, who are not yet potty trained would do the same thing when they were supposed to be napping.

I've finally started taping their diapers on at naptime.

Ruby

 

[Gilly Bean]

When we were potty training our oldest (who is 5 1/2), my hubby didn't get her on the toilet in time. He started to lift her, and felt a plop on his foot. He is kinda... squemish. Well, not usually, but he was that day. He freaked out.


I remember it was either the day I went into labor with number 2, or the day before. I remember this because he wiped the whole mess up with baby wipes, like 10 of them, and put em in the toilet, and flushed. While I was in the hospital, one of his jobs was to go buy a plunger and fix it. We still tease him about flushing baby wipes.


Other then that, no poopy messes that I can recall.

 

[April]

Ya oughta kick your husband's ass for letting it happen. Hmm?

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Damn, not a nice thing to clean up.]

After repainting one of our childrens rooms a couple of years ago, one of them decided they wanted flowers on their wall..... Would not wash off, so had to paint again !!!!

Ever since then she has decided that she will not clean her room becasue we took her flowers away........ I have tried everything to get her to clean up her mess at least once a week... any ideas anyone? She is 6 and very intelligent girl.

 

[LemonDroppe]

Oh, how time heals! I can actually laugh out loud about it now.

Thanks for sharing your stories! I am literally wiping tears away. How can we love these munchkins so much, when they do such bad, bad things? (and I'm referring to both the husbands and the kids).

April... trust me, my husband was punished. *He's* the one who had to clean it all up.

 

[DriveSouth]

Painting with Poop

I think if you present this properly you might be able to get a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

[Gilly Bean]

Damn, not a nice thing to clean up.]

After repainting one of our childrens rooms a couple of years ago, one of them decided they wanted flowers on their wall..... Would not wash off, so had to paint again !!!!

Ever since then she has decided that she will not clean her room becasue we took her flowers away........ I have tried everything to get her to clean up her mess at least once a week... any ideas anyone? She is 6 and very intelligent girl.

What we just started with our 5 year old is working rather nicely right now.

She is supposed to pick up her own stuff in her own room. The rule is, if we ask her to do so, and she doesn't, then we clean it. But, any toys we clean up, we get to keep. Usually, we put them out in the storage shed. That has only happened once. Since then, she cleans up when we ask her to. Being as young as she is, she doesn't clean up as nice as we want, but it is teaching her the responsibility of doing the action.

The secret is, though, that you have to actually follow through with it.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

<<<<But, any toys we clean up, we get to keep. Usually, we put them out in the storage shed. >>>>

Yep, we have tried that. Put the most prized toys in the garage for 3 months, it did not show she missed them, just cryed for 5 seconds as they were taken the the shed.

Two weeks after the toys came back and the room was not being cleaned still, we threw out some of her small Mc Donalds toys... still no effect.

Otherwise she is a very good sweet kid.......