Jul. 15, 2009
Home Spun strip #374
Posted in Home Spun comic part 19
Yes she did. One of the ways Marina and Chase spoiled me is that they never put things in their mouths. On the other hand, Sierra kept me on my toes. No matter how well I swept and vacuumed, she could find the one tiny rhinestone in the corner that I missed. It got worse when she learned how to climb. There was that one week when we had to call poison control...twice. She was two and could work the child safety caps.
On the plus side, I learned a lot about my wild plants as she followed me around the yard. I kept a wildflower and weed identification book on hand, just in case her hand was quicker than my eye. My garden is all natural--no herbicides, pesticides, or other toxic chemicals. So she was OK in spite of sampling the dandelion. And once Marina had the garden growing well, Sierra limited her picking to actual vegetables. I suppose they tasted better.
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Jul. 15, 2009 - Untitled Comment
 Posted by callmekate
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Aren't you glad it was only one child who did this? My oldest was the "explore everything by placing it in mouth" expert while the younger two never did, or at least rarely did. Chad was the one I called poison control twice on, and I worried that they could track my number and report me as a bad parent - seriously! Like your daughter, Chad was quick and could find things that I thought I had cleaned up thoroughly. Like those green foam shipping peanuts - I about died when I discovered him chomping on one. He sampled my Christmas cactus - that was worthy of a PC call. I don't need to go on, you know all about it!
Enjoy your week!
Kate
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Aug. 15, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Dec. 1, 2009 - I had a week like that once...
 Posted by Christinethecurious
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with my oldest, he spat loudly, then told me,' these mushrooms taste bad."
I grabbed him, ran inside, called poison control, and was thankful I already had ipicak. "This tastes spicy Momma." he said, before it began it's thing.
Phew!
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