Anything can happen in the next half hour!
A strange phenomenon is occurring at regular intervals in our household. The wee lass has a minor bout of flatulence, goes red in the face and fills her nappy with poo the same colour as mustard. This isn't odd, it's obviously quite normal (even down to the colour). What is odd is that M'laddo takes this as some sort of trigger to do a huge poo himself. Usually within minutes.
A case in point was yesterday. I was happily sitting at my desk at work, safely outside the poo exclusion zone when I got a message saying the wee lass had done 3 days worth of poo in an enormous explosion of yuckiness. Less than 20 minutes later, M'laddo deposited two days worth of manky evilness into his nappy.
M'laddo used to be quite regular, around lunch time, after his food and preferably at home as he doesn't like doing his business whilst out and about (a lad after my own heart), so the whole concept of him going a couple of days without a bowel movement is fairly odd in itself. And to my mind its too much of a coincidence that he let rip right after his sister.
We reckon he's readying himself to be potty trained though- he now shouts "wee wee" between 15 minutes and two seconds before he does his poo. We just need to work on the name for it and the timing and we'll be there.
That's got to be better than chasing him around the house/garden and wrestling him to the floor before he manages to sit down in it and spread it absolutely everywhere hasn't it?
Oh yes - infinitely. Wasn't it Freud who said something about it being an infant's first taste of creativity? I think it's also their first stab at serious manipulative adult-baiting, too. Pass the nappy-bin!
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