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Last night, Zoey needed a bath. Since it was trash night, I wanted the poop picked up too. So I gave Tim the option. He choose bath leaving me with poop duty. Alex had helped with Zoey’s last bath so he got the joy of helping me in the backyard.
I also had committed to making a cake. In my effort to multi-task, I planned to make the cake first. It could be in the oven while I looked for land mines. Alex was not happy with this arrangement. “How much longer, Mom?” he kept asking. I have never seen anyone so excited to go out and pick up poop! By then, Tim was done with Zoey’s bath. In trying to elude the blissful task of picking up poop AND to get Alex off my back, I sent Alex off to try to talk Tim into doing it. No luck, damn.
Finally time to head out, Alex said in a very cheerful voice, “Time to pick up poop.” Something has to be wrong with this kid.
Lately I’ve been wearing latex gloves to pick up the poop. Alex wanted to use the “tweezers” a.k.a. pooper scooper this time. He was holding the bag for me like such a good boy. In the transfer I accidentally got a smidge poop on his thumb.
“MOM, YOU GOT POOP ON ME. YUCK!”
“Alex, it’s OK. Go inside and wash your hands with soap.”
Off he went. I didn’t think I’d see him again but he came back out with latex gloves on both his hands. After getting some poop on his gloves, he thought it would be fun to get it on me. I told him no.
“But you got some on me.”
“Alex, it was an accident.”
We completed our job without another incident. However, this morning Andy was still talking about how I got poop on Alex. I can only imagine the stories they are telling at school…
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Not a favorite job in our home, the boys suggested letting the poop mulch into the lawn…lovely.
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Ugh, poop duty. I like to have the poop picked up, too, but no one else does it around here and if it gets done it’s my job. I don’t even like dogs so when we got the dog I wasn’t supposed to have to take care of these things. Next time we’re getting a cat. I will still be in charge of poop, but at least I will enjoy the animal more!
August 28th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Oh yes the forever quest of landmines! We have several child play things in the back yard (jungle gym, swing set, and bouncy house) and Peyton knows she can’t play on any of it unless the yard is picked up. She rounds up the neighborhood kids, and they get it done in a jiffy and have tons of fun. CHEAP LABOR! Yes we have hand sanitizer and ample washing supplies but very rarely do we have poo tracks even on the deck!
Angel