No.1
reason to pack a change of clothes in your nappy bag
Following on from Total Bag Envy's 15 Nappy Bag Essentials blog, I had some people ask
why it’s so important to have a change of clothes in your nappy bag. Well, do I
have a story for you!
The only time (and
I mean the ONLY time) my friend forgot a change of clothes still makes me cry
laughing. She was dropping me off very early one morning at McDonalds to meet up with other friends for a road trip
I was going on. We were sitting outside while her 2yr old
little boy played in the playground when the most horrendous smell filled the
air and put us off our breakfast! It was a shocking smell and we were
trying to figure out where on earth this smell could be coming from. We were
laughing while we blamed the gardener (thinking he had put out fertiliser), the
bins, even the other family near us (only to ourselves but still not our finest
moment) and then even made jokes about one of the kids having an ‘accident’
down the slide.
We were thinking we were pretty funny when her 2yr old
son came walking over like a cowboy, holding himself, all upset and just
looking at us saying “yuck, yuck”. My
friend (who was trying to toilet train) was pretty happy with herself thinking
he was telling her that he needed to go to the toilet. We then realised the
reason he was walking like a cowboy was because he had poo running down both
his legs! We had found the source of the smell! Well, this wasn’t just a poo,
it was a poo explosion in a class of its own and we were crying with laughter
as we had no idea what to do next. He was all upset because she wouldn’t pick
him up for a hug and we were trying to get him into the parents room to get
him cleaned up.
Well, it still
didn’t stop there! We were trying to get him to lie down to change him to which
he put up a big fight. Once we finally lay him down we found out the reason he didn't want to lie down, there was poo all up his back as well! This really was the poo explosion of
the century. It was all over his shirt, on his shorts, even his shoes – the poor
kid was covered in poo and all his mum and I were doing was wiping away tears
of laughter! We managed to clog the toilet, put water everywhere and smell the
place out while trying to figure out what to dress him in (the clothes were
binned- there was no way she was taking them home) as she had forgotten to put
a change of clothes into her nappy bag.
Seeing it was so early there were hardly any shops open and the only
boys clothes we could find were boys size 7-8 pyjamas. The poor kid looked
ridiculous as we could only put the shirt on (we didn’t even contemplate the
pants) and even though he was little then, I still don’t think he has forgiven
us. We also haven’t been back to that McDonalds as we also realised after the
fact that we didn’t check the slide!
I don’t think I
will ever forget that day and I sometimes still crack myself up with tears of
laughter just thinking about it (which is a little strange when I’m getting groceries). They say that you learn something every day but I think what I
learnt on that day is something I will always take with me. ALWAYS have a spare
change of clothes in your nappy bag!
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