Hailey’s Crib

Non-parents may get grossed out by this story, or they may just laugh. 

Parents will laugh or sigh in recognition!

 Friday night Hailey was cranky, overtired, and hating everything.  Bath went badly, she screamed when we took off or tried to put on her diaper, dinner was a battle.  Finally we decided that putting on jammies was a battle we weren’t prepared for.  Her room is always warm at night between the humidifier and her heater, so I wasn’t too worried about her.  She seemed happy with this arrangement, so we all went to bed.

Woke up Saturday morning, and I decided to get Hailey and bring her to our bed to snuggle.  She’d been making some funny playful noises earlier, but that’s what she does.

I went in to her room, she was snuggled into her blankie.  As usual, when she heard me come in, she stood up and yelled “Mama!”  Then the smell hit me.  And the colors smeared onto every blankie and stuffed animal in her crib.  You see, Hailey has a blankie that lives at each end of the crib to cushion her head when she bounces around.  And two blankies that she snuggles with.  Plus, she has a baby doll, a froggy “lovie”, a stuffed doggy and three bears that she sleeps with.  Maybe overkill, but she loves waking up to play with them in the morning. 

Hailey had taken off her diaper.  She was butt-naked in the crib, leaping around.  And there was poop everywhere…  everywhere.  All Evan heard over the monitor was “oh my god” and “help me!” 

He bathed her while I bundled up the bedding and “friends” to take them up to Evan’s parents house to wash them.  2 wash cycles each load plus careful drying left everything good as new!

No, there are no pictures.  Believe me, it didn’t even cross my mind.  Be glad.