This is my baby jumping on the trampoline.
We had a trampoline, a really nice one, that my parents got the kids one Christmas with really nice sides and everything. A year or so after we got it my daughter jumped weird on it and fell on her neck, she is fine, but she was sore. It scared my husband so bad the next day he sold it.
My little kids have not jumped on a trampoline before. My husbands Uncle has a trampoline and a beautiful pool, we had my sister in laws rehearsal dinner in his back yard this weekend. I basically stood at the trampoline for 3 hours while my baby jumped and ran her little heart out!
She didn’t want to eat, or drink, or do anything but jump on the trampoline.
So she jumped and jumped and jumped.
I have never seen anyone so truly happy!
I sat there watching her thinking deep thoughts about being more childlike, enjoying life more, and just letting go and having fun! She was in the zone, nothing was going to stop her!
There was also the pool. It was beautiful and so many kids to play with. The baby was not interested at all. We pulled her off a few times and stuck her in the pool. Only to give in and let her back on the trampoline.
I was sitting next to the pool watching the kids and trying to figure out what she was yelling at. There was one of the cousins in front of her and I thought the baby was yelling at him, so I didn’t pay too much attention. My sister in law walked over to see what the commotion was.
“Tiffany! She pooped in the pool!” She says.
“She what?” I say
“She’s trying to tell you she pooped in the pool!”
Sure enough, she is sitting there, poop all over the bottom of the pool, and she is pointing at it yelling at me.
Now, remember, this is a party. There are at least 20 people in the pool. There are 40 people out of the pool standing around it. These are all my husbands family and the wedding party. I don’t know ANY of these people, except the VERY close family. OMG! Seriously! I have had little kids poop in a swim diaper quite a few times, it happens. But not like this.
So what do I do? Turn around, walk inside, and find my husband.
“PAUL!! Your baby just pooped in the pool in front of EVERYONE and it is floating around.” I yell.
“So help her!” He says jumping up.
“I just can’t.” And I really couldn’t, I kinda just froze. I can handle puke and everything else, but poop, and in front of tons of people I don’t know. In the pool, was more than I was going to do!
Paul walks outside, grabs the baby, and a net and starts fishing poop out. By this time the kids in the pool are already screaming and clearing the pool out, they had figured out what happened. He hoses the baby off, and cleans off the deck.
Crisis over.
The baby, completely unaware or uncaring of the hysteria she has just caused, walks back over to the trampoline and pushes her way on with all the kids cleared out from the pool.
Where she promptly PEES all OVER the trampoline!!!!
It is then that I decide, that 1. Swim Diapers are NOT overrated, and 2. That jumping for hours on the trampoline knocks something loose!!
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I am still laughing!!!!!! Gotta love our kids!!!! This is so great 🙂
oh no!! how embarassing!! and i thought poop on our deck and carpet was bad… 🙁
I love to read your stories!!!
Hooray for vacation!
HAHAHAHA!!!!! Thanks for the giggle! 😉
Maybe you want to change her name below to ‘Mary Poopins’! (sorry, I had to!). 😉
OK that is FUNNY!
Never a boring moment when kids are around; if they are not saying it ,they are doing it LOL
Its a good thing she so stinkin cute! (no pun intended) 🙂
I almost choked on my food from laughing…..:)
It is times like these that I remind my husband that this particular crisis is all his because I handled the pregnancy and birth. It works for me!
I am literally rolling on the floor laughing (well more like rolling on my bed).
I wonder what she would do you you when she read this post years later?
;-D
Oh Tiffany, I can so relate. Just last week I had my girls in swimming lessons. They go to a lady that teaches out of her pool in the Woodlands……you know, the really nice part of the woodlands…..where there are ladies with there kiddos that are COMPLETELY not in the same circle as myself…..I digress. Anyway, I had allowed my oldest (5) to swim in the hottub while I finished getting the baby dressed after her lesson. I tell her that she needs to get out and get dressed, which she does….no fussing or anything ( this should have been my first clue). Anyway, she is in the bathroom for a LONG time. I am just getting up to see what is going on when she comes out. Oh good I think to myself. I then notice that she is holding her shoes behind her back….uh oh. After the banter back and forth I find out that she had an “accident” in the bathroom. Yeah, well the sweet angel tried to clean up the “accident” in the bathroom….I went in there and Tiffany….there was poop EVERYWHERE! I mean walls, carpet you name it. So after trying desperately to clean this up, I then went to “quietly” let the instructer know. Except, it was then that I see that the hottub (the one that cascades down into the main pool) is awfully merky! Yeah, so lessons get cancelled for the next 4hrs while she shocks the pool and I needed to crawl under a rock. So, I completely empathize with you and know that you are not alone.
Oh no! Wasn’t your heart breaking for her that she tried to clean it up herself?! What a sweet heart! I am so sorry! I know, we don’t really fit in well either, I had 5 too many kids! We are kinda a freak show at parties!
I can soo relate… Last fourth of July we took our 5 children to the subdivision pool early in the morning, before the crowds. My then very potty trained four year old had a runny explosion in the shallow end. There was nothing to scoop. It had spread everywhere! The pool had to be shut down for 24 hrs. Fourth of July pool parties were cancelled. I made my husband stay behind and inform residents until the city came and posted the “Pool Closed By City” sign. Im now known as “THAT MOM”… Kids, gotta love em!!
OH MY HEAVENS! I am so sorry! I would have hugged you and thanked you for letting me take my kids home early!
Oh Tiff…..
MY daughter has the same swimsuit…lol…has nothign to do with poop…but oh well….nice suit!!!
So has she ever pooped in the pool in it? If not I can cross off the suit as the culprit!
My older kids are in their 20s now son no swim diapers back then. One of my boys pooped every time he got near a pool. To this day his brother asks him every time they are near water if he’s gonna poop! I think its the smell of chlorine!!! Lol
She is never going to forgive you for posting this! Thanks for making my day 🙂 Your family rocks!
LMBO !! too funny…she is so cute Tiff..they do some crazy things dont they.
She has a beautiful tan too..
I’m still laughing, but I really feel for you! My daughter is going to turn 4 in October, and this Spring we were at Target and she asked to look at toys. Not a problem, my regular shopping was finished, so we popped over there. She was wearing a dress, and we were there about 5 minutes when I heard a familiar sound. She started peeing right there in the middle of the Barbie aisle! I was so embarrassed! I found a store employee, and let them know what happened, and apologized profusely. Fortunately, they thought it was funny, and assured me it was okay. I had to take my daughter to the kids clothing section and a buy her some clean clothes because when I checked my purse, I realized I had forgotten to grab her emergency clothes. It was just one of those days. *Sigh* Kids make our days far from boring, and I am thankful for that! lol