Is it Halloween?

Well, sometimes things happen with your kids that you weren’t quite expecting to have to deal with. (Okay, I guess that’s pretty much most of the time!) I had a bit of a déjà vu experience today. The kids were up in their rooms for quiet time. I heard B’s door, so I looked up the stairs to see what he was doing. I thought he might be headed to the bathroom or something. Whatever he was doing, I wanted to intercept him before he disturbed any of the others (I was enjoying my peace and quiet time). When he heard me coming, he took off and ran into the room where S was napping and closed the door behind him. I ran up to get him because I didn’t want him waking her. I opened the door, and he did this shreiky squeal and turned his back to me to “hide” from me. I turned him around, but I already knew what I was going to see... the smell of Desitin was pretty strong in the air! I found him covered in the white mess—his face, his clothes, his hands. I also found a fingerprint trail through his bedroom and a pile of diaper wipes he used trying to clean up his mess. Luckily the wipes do clean it up pretty well… everything but the clothes. That’s a whole other story there. M did the same thing when she was little… of course she was only about 18 months old!

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