*a handful of pee*

*It was cold (but not as cold as toilet water normally is when it hasn't been peed in) and I found myself fighting back the urge to throw up as I fished around in the pee-ful toilet bowl for K's soother.

And I'm thinking to myself . . .'4 years ago this wasn't what I did.'*

Here I am, sitting on my couch in my dressing gown/house coat waiting for my clothes to dry (yes, it's laundry day) with CLEAN hands and finally a story worth blogging :O)

It all started when K woke up this morning and decided it was a day to be difficult. She didn't care whether or not it was Lee's turn to sleep in or not, he was GOING to get up for breakfast. Then when eating her breakfast, K decides she wants a gummy bear (we have kids vitamins in the shape of gummy bears). Since she views them more as a treat than a vitamin, I used it to bargain with her, 'eat your breakfast first and THEN you can have a gummy bear'.

Like I said, K was being difficult today and burst into ear-piercing screams that would make any dog run and hide.

'I WANT A GUMMY BEAR NOW!!!!!!'

And this continues for about 10 minutes until I see her holding herself the way kids do when they need to go to the bathroom. So I picked my sweet red-faced, tear-stained, messy-haired first born babe up in my arms and carried her up the stairs to the bathroom where she continued to scream at me while I sent her on the toilet to do her thing.

I don't know what she drank the night before, but she'd CLEARLY been holding it for a while because the floodgates opened and out came a waterfall of liquid! And K is still screaming. And still peeing. And then I see the soother in her mouth . . .and it looks like it's close to falling out of her gaping mouth and I start to feel myself sweat, just a bit.

I'm eager for K to finish going to the bathroom but like I said, she must have drunk loads and wasn't going to stop any time soon, but I could see the soother tipping precariously out of her mouth!

Then all of a sudden - PLOP! - it was in. And K was STILL peeing! And I start to go through my options.

Option 1. Is it possible to flush a soother down the toilet? Probably not.

Option 2. Ask Lee to make the decision as to what I should do and therefore placing the responsibility on him and not having to deal with it myself, but he didn't get to sleep in this morning.

Option 3. Make K fish it out. That felt a bit like child abuse

Option 4. 'Mom up' and get it out myself. And so I did.

And it was gross and felt completely wrong and I really did want to throw up. But I got it out and washed it and washed my hands.

The grossest part? When K tried to stick it BACK in her mouth after I fished it out! AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I asked Lee to sterilise it while I mentally blocked the image of my sticking my hand in pee water from my head.

If anyone ever says that being a mom is easy I will DARE them to stick their hand in pee water. Be warned.

Oh, and my girls' soothers really get around.