Bodily fluids...

This was not what I planned to write about this week but my youngest did something that changed my mind.
My "baby" will be two next month and so we are trying to get her interested in the potty. The other evening she was acting like she needed to poop. I said, "Let's go sit on the potty" and offered my usual bribe of 2 m&m's if she went.  So she sat on her potty and made her faces and then stood up and said, "m&m's". I did a quick check and reminded her that she needed to "go" to get her reward. That is when she proceeded to pick up the little pellet of poop in her cute, stubby fingers to show it to me. I reacted like anyone would - I screamed, she cried, dropped it and jumped into my arms.  I recovered and back tracked right away praising her for using the potty and hoping I didn't scar her for life.  All the time I'm trying not to dwell on the fact that .... MY DAUGHTER JUST PICKED UP POOP!
That is the life a parent... Teaching your children all the little things, like not to pick up poop, or eat it (that's another story), not pick your nose, or eat that, not to eat things off the floor, and not to put things in the "out" holes.

Why didn't anyone tell me about the bodily fluids?

"I wish I would have known that little baby boys get erections!". - Jennifer, mom of 3 boys (God bless you!)

"The night we brought our baby girl home from the hospital, she had a small amount of mucousy blood from her vagina. It was to late to call anyone, so we had to wait until the next morning to find out it is normal. We were told baby girls have something that mimics a period." That would have been nice to know!- Jen, mom of 2