Miss Mandi and The Adventures of Babysitting: I am all "pooped" out!

Hello Wonderful World!

This week's topic will make you want to have a million children and totally gross you out...

get excited! We're talking about...POOP... YAY! :D

"Say whaaaaat?"

Oh boy, where do I even begin on such a delightful topic....

first of all, the word "poop" is quite funny. Just say it...POOP. hehe! (as my lil' childish side giggles delightfully!) Seriously though, who came up with such a word?

So, I need help from all Mommies, Babysitters, and other Nannies out there...

does anybody else care for kiddos that are like...obsessed with poop? Ok, let me back up..."obsessed" might be a little exaggerated. I don't know if it's a "boy" thing, if it's a "2-4 year old" thing, or if I have just been blessed with extra special children to nanny for...haha! I deal with so much "shit" in one day (literally and not literally) it's exhausting! I grew up in a household full of boys....I nanny for a household full of boys...even my pets are boys, and I live with a boy! And let me tell you something....boys are smelly and gross:) -i say that with much love of course-

Where does this fascination of "poo" and "doo doo" come from?

Let's start with the wonderful book...

"Everybody Poops"

I think this is a fantastic book buuuut....

Gross:) AND did you know there are many other wonderful "poo" books out there in our world?!

Here's a few that I found...

There are probably a million other books out there but I will stop there for now:)

Seriously though guys, my day is filled with farts, burps, "boooogers", poop, and so much more!

By the end of the day my lil' "barbie-self" is so grossed out and sick of this "crap" (hehe) fo' real!

How I put up with it...I dunno. But I do..."doo doo doo"....*sigh*


Poor Barbie Mandi...at least I keep that smile on my face though and still look fab!	haha!

Everything with the boys right now is, "I pooped", "Ohhh hey Maaandi! Come look at this poop!", "You're a poop head!", "Do cows poop?!"....I could go on and on. Everything is Poop, Poop, Poop. What the crap? I just don't get it!

Is it because Miles is going through potty training? And everything about the "potty" is interesting right now...including bodily functions?

I mean, I guess we DO clap, cheer, and sing out of joy when he does use the potty.

Maybe he thinks that "pooping" is fun? And a wonderful thing? (I mean..it definitely isn't a 'bad' thing and can be quite wonderful I suppose, but that's besides the point!)

Maybe it's just so darn fun to push the handle down and watch it go down the potty?

Maybe everybody just wants to escape to the wonderful lil' bathroom heaven each day just for a few minutes to read a good book? (speaking of which...I have never read on the potty and don't understand why people do...maybe I need to try it sometime? :) ) However, that is what a library is for....

And last of all...I guess it's just natural and I really shouldn't complain.

There's worst things in the world...right? However, poop is so nasty!

Whoever invented it is totally "craaaay".

Even for the older boys in our world....

who doesn't love "Mr. Hanky and the Christmas Poop" from South Park? I mean...I'm pretty sure they even have a song about him. Goodness gracious!

Because of the kiddos I have had quite a few not so wonderful experiences with poop...

I will not go into detail because it's so close to dinner time. But man! Come on! What is this "shit"?!

Let's just say...sometimes diapers don't totally do their job. Or sometimes the potty might get missed.

Or sometimes, just sometimes you might want to touch it. OR the best of all...sometimes it's just fun to take a nice big ol' dump in the bathtub during bath time. *sigh* that is my favorite. Once again...what the "crap" is with all this "shit". I don't get it and I'm NOT ok with it. But, I guess I have to deal with it and at the end of the day we learn the true moral of this story and it is the fact that......

SHIT HAPPENS