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This entry is about poop.  If you have a weak stomach, maybe you shouldn’t read this one.

I am not pleased with Baby’s daycare at present; they are really starting to tick me off.  For those of you that don’t know, on Thursday they sent my son home because they said that he had diarrhea and their policy did not allow them to keep babies with diarrhea on the premises.  I understand that, I read the handbook, and because of that I left work early and picked him up.  My mom was at home and she was able to watch Destructo until Milhouse got home from work.  We kept Senor Stinkypants home on Friday and monitored everything that he ate over the weekend and what it looked like coming out and he was fine.  No weird anything, so we resumed our routine.

But they are still telling me that he is having diarrhea poops and they are threatening to send him home again!  I think that they have convinced themselves that every poop he has is diarrhea when its not.  I have seen his poops and they are not diarrhea poops, they are mushy but they’re not something to worry about.

He was at home with Milhouse and I all weekend and he was fine.  There were no signs of diarrhea and there were no signs of him being ill, so I don’t know what is going on.  I am starting to wonder if there is something at the daycare that is making you sick and if that is the case, I wonder what it is.  His menu changes daily and I have told them NOT to give him any milk products at all.  But they are still telling me that he is having weird poop. 

Maybe I am fretting over nothing and the people there are just crazy but the daycare is driving me crazy.

Moms out there, have your babies ever gone through this??

Have you ever seen Yo Gabba Gabba or In The Night Garden? 

I watched a couple episodes with Stinky and I have come to this conclusion – they are on drugs!!!

That’s the only explanation I can come up with.  The characters are crazy and they are the brainchild of drugged up writers.

Or maybe (this is a good conspiracy one) the writers are geniuses that are transmitting consumer based subliminal messages to children in a show that impossible for adults to watch.

What do you think?

Kingston & Destructo are going through this weird ‘sibling’ rivalry issue right now.  They both thing I am da bomb (and who could blame them ) but they are having issues sharing me. 

If I sit down to read to Mr.  Man, Kingston runs over and tries to push Baby off my lap.  And if I am playing with Kingston, Destructo comes over and tries to pull me away.  It’s starting to get silly now.  I can’t wash the dishes without Kingston laying across my feet and Destructo standing beside me on the step stool.  Neither wants to leave me alone because (it seems) that they are afraid that the other one will steal me away.

They don’t to this with Milhouse, but I wish they would.  Then I would be able to get some stuff done…

According to my ‘Mother of all toddler’ books, baby is supposed to be getting at least 11 hours of sleep a night with a two hour nap during the day.  He doesn’t do that.  He gets a maximum of 8.5 a night and maybe 1.5 in the day.

He could get about 9.5 – 10 hours sleep if I put him to bed right after dinner and his bath.  But I don’t.  He stays him and he plays with us for a bit.  We sing songs, and read books. 

Am I bad mommy because of this?

If he went to bed right after his bath I would only get to spend about 4 hours with him.  And 2 of those hours are spent in the car during our commute.  He’s not sleep deprived or anything, or at least I don’t think he is.  He isn’t falling asleep on himself but I do feel really guilty.

I do believe that Destructo has entered the terrible 2’s, the only thing is, he is only 16 months!!  He’s been driving me bonkers lately; its like is on hyper warp drive moving through the house at the speed of light. 

He’s been getting into things, taking things apart and generally doing things that I specifically tell him not to do.  I know that he is just testing his limits and exploring but if he was older he would most certainly have gotten a time out by now.

According to my ‘Mother of all Toddler’ books, this is normal.  Apparently the only kind of discipline that would work right now is sternly tell him ‘no’ and move him away from the object that is tempting him.  That doesn’t work.  This kid is persistent and sneaky.

Yesterday he went into his changing supplies, grabbed his Vaseline ran behind the rocker, crouched down & hid so he could try and get the Vaseline open.  The whole reason that he did that was because I took the Vaseline away and moved him to the toy area.   

*ho hum* I don’t know what to do with him, but if this is a sign of things to come, I am screwed.