Thursday, March 24, 2011

Diaper or Food Storage?

Yesterday, at the end of a long work day, I made my routine trip to the bathroom--my final moments of peace before the evening maelstrom begins. I'm sitting there and I hear the taptaptaptaptap of Ava's little feet and then...

Ava: MAMA!!!

[taptaptaptaptap]

Ava: MAMA!! You in there?

Me: Yes.

Ava: Let me in!!

[I open the door.]

Ava: Mama! You go potty?

Me: Yup. What are you doing?

Ava: I playing.

[She starts to wiggle and make a face.]

Ava: Ow!

Me: What's wrong?

[She reaches into the front of her diaper.]

Me: Is something in your diaper? What is it?

Ava: Ow!

[She digs around and pulls out a piece of something about the size of a nickel.]

Me: What is that?

Ava: Cracker!

And then she put it in her mouth.

I stopped her before she could actually eat it, but if I hadn't been there, she would have had a snack that she found in her diaper.

I like to believe that in the event of an apocalypse, she'd outlive us all.

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