Here is how our afternoon played out:
After a long day on the road for work, I picked up Kylie from Fae's. We were upstairs where I was getting ready for soccer and Kylie was during her usual ditty of opening up all our drawers and pulling out anything she can get her hands on (mostly all my travel stuff and Jon's bedside drawers). She came to me smelling rather "powdery" and had evidence on her lips and fingers of eating something. I couldn't figure out what and thought it was maybe the chapstick label she's been gnawing at for a long time (which wouldn't explain the smell!). A bit later, I found my travel deodorant...empty. I peeled off the label where it told me to call poison control if eaten by a child.
Conveniently, I recently heard a talk from poison control at one of my meetings and have their magnet right on the fridge. The lady was less apparently less than thrilled with my lack of supervision over Kylie. Her persnickety comments and our conversation went something like:
"Hi. My 15 month old just ate a tube of travel deodorant and the label says I should call poison control."
"A WHOLE tube of deodorant?"
"A travel size tube."
"Well, it's going to cause an upset stomach and possible vomiting!"
"OK, is there anything else I need to watch for or be aware of?"
"No, it just might cause discomfort."
(me thinking) "Alright lady, thanks for all your help and I hope your day gets better."
Jon was home with her this evening while I got my butt kicked in soccer. She's fine and never puked:-)
7 comments:
On the bright side - changing diapers should be more pleasant the next few days. HA! Don't feel too bad. We all have plenty of those awards.
i still have that number in my head-I don't think I ever had to use it? sheesh...feed the kid!! just kidding.
oh, boy! aren't you looking forward to the days when you don't have to watch them like a hawk anywhere that's not babyproofed??? oh, but here emery will be following right behind ashlynn. it will be a while till we see those days....
Jo, honestly, if all of us moms posted about every event that could SO easily qualify us for "Mom of the Year", the web would be SHUT DOWN because of the overload. Don't sweat it...those sneaky little munchkins get in to stuff no matter what ya do!! Carson ate a few of those oily bath ball things when he was a baby...just had a few "lavendary" smelling diapers. :)
Thanks for sharing your story!!
Atta girl Kylie! Stomach of steel!!
That is so funny! Kids, they're always into something!
one time I ate miracle grow because I thought it was colored sugar. yep. that's all.
(i had to write something because you are the master commenter.)
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