Mar. 25, 2009 - If it was legal to sell 2 year olds on ebay, I wonder how many there would be?
Those of you that also know me on facebook, might have seen my status today:
Misti Clark Konsavage is thankful you can't sell a 2 year old on ebay...I may be tempted today. (grin) |
That status ended up getting LOTS of funny comments, but not one person asked me WHY I was tempted. Well, this is one of those stories that Petersonclan talks about that "If it's going to be funny someday, it's funny now." I don't agree that it's funny yet, but since I can see laughing about it with her when she's married and has her own crazy stinker houdini 2 year old daughter, I will laugh...so the story will get typed so I can print it out and put it in her baby book along with the Emergency Room results from last night...oh, I'm jumping ahead of myself.
I'd love to say that this mishap happened because I was lounging in my jacuzzi bathtub, eating Hersheys 65% dark chocolate squares with cacao nibs in it (the best there is!!), listening to some really relaxing praise music while reading the book I've almost started reading all week but don't have time (Against the Wind by K.P. Yohannan) with the wonderful aroma of rose petals around me from some tantalizing bubble bath that hasn't already been used on the little savages....while they sweetly all sat on the couch reading as a group quietly. But because my life isn't like the family on tv, it goes like this....
We had just finished dinner. The baby (along with 3 of his siblings) have or are getting over croup. The baby's nose was full of some stuff that desperately needed a bulb syringe and boy was he fussy! (Did I mention that it was a night that Chris was working?) I take cute baby savage to my bedroom to suck out the you know what...leaving most of my kids clearning up the kitchen while listening to Pilgrim's Progress. I suck the nosey a few times which causes some to also come up his throat (these syringes are heavy duty these days, enough to suck your toes back through your nose) I digress. Sorry. Some phlegm got sucked up to his gag area and he proceeded to throw up 4-5 times --all over our bed.
I ran to get a towel to clean up him and the bed, when Noah walks in showing me a medicine cup (one of those tiny ones that comes with Children's liquid medicine) that has red stuff at the bottom.
He proceeds to tell me that energizer baby...the same sweet angel that turned 2 1/2 this week, was found with a kitchen chair against the kitchen counter and her standing on the kitchen counter messing with all the medicines 5 feet in the air...she had gotten the bottle of Children's Tylenol open and had some...how much he didn't know. By the time he noticed the cup was sitting there and she was trying to get the Albuterol syrup open too, that we have been giving for croup.
I take a big sigh (DId I mention Chris was working?) and hand mucus covered baby to biggest brother and grab the phone to call SuperSavage. I say "We have a problem." And I proceeded to recap the above scenario.
He says he'll call Poison Control...you know those people I blogged about in September that we called for, who else, but energizer toddler. They call me...and she says for her weight she would have needed to ingest 2 1/2 oz...or over 1/2 of a full bottle. I really wasn't sure how much was in there but doubted it was 1/2 full to start with. I tell her the whole story and she reassures me that she doesn't think it was that much, probably don't need to give her activated charcoal or take her in or anything unless I thought she had 70 ml or more. Well, I was ALMOSt sure she hadn't but because I wasn't 100% sure, Super savage and I decided to have her acetaminophen levels drawn at 4 hrs to see if it was toxic levels.
Problem is....4 hrs meant 11:30PM. I mean, I'm a night person and all, but I got about 5 hrs of sleep the night before. Well, sweet neighbor came over to sleep at my house so I could WAKE UP not one but TWO sleeping babies and take them to the ER in the middle of the night.
Gilead didn't appreciate that at all....but Praise really didn't when she had to have her finger poked and blood drained for 5 min into a tube. I just kept quietly talking and holding her saying sweetly, "Now Praisey....I'm sorry we have to do this but you did not obey and drank medicine without asking so now you have to have an owie!" I said that quite a few times hoping it all sinks in.
I went back home and daddy called to say her # was 26 and toxic levels are 150 so I can go to sleep now.
In the morning, we repeated the story to all the siblings , emphasizing WHY she had to go through that.
So, my next plan when I have more sleep is to try to trick her into drinking medicine....leaving the same little cup full of water w/ a drop of red food coloring. (insert sinister laugh here) And pouncing on her when she gives into her fleshly sin nature. (Notice I didn't says IF.....)
So ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. Another episode in "The Adventures of what happens a Night Daddy pulls an all-nighter."
This is a true story....my life is way too exciting to make things up!!
And just for the mental imagery, here is the sweet little thing...w/ a coon skin cap on today (God makes them cute for a reason you know!!)
Comments
Mar. 25, 2009 - ha ha ha ha
Posted by Eunice
"Now Praisey....I'm sorry we have to do this but you did not obey and drank medicine without asking so now you have to have an owie!"
Oh Misti! I can hear you saying that. And I was thinking the same thing. Even the training lesson that will surely follow in the next few days. ROFLOL..... that Praise is a stinker!
Mar. 25, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by momtosixsweeties
Oh, you have my sympathies! I can't tell you how many times I have thought "this is exactly why God makes them so stinkin cute!"
I hope you get more sleep tonight! I'll think of you every single time I have to get up to pee :o)
Mar. 25, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Misti,
Yes I too have had to call poison control, One time Chase (you know the 12 year old) was going to take his allergie med and I was taking medicine too he picked my medicine up and took it (a blood thiner, pain med and something else) Chad started screaming "HE TOOK YOUR MEDICINE!!!" and Chase when realizing he picked up the wrong medicine fell to the floor holding his throat crying "I"M GONNA DIE!!" well he didn't die...poison control told me what he had taken wouldn't hurt him, he would just sleep...he stayed up all night, nearly talked my head off...we laugh about it now, but it was a little scary..I'm glad Praise is o.k. You gotta love those two year olds!!
Maria
Mar. 26, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by 4sweetums
We had that experience a few years ago. Unfortunately, it was with our adopted dd who was still a foster child at the time so it was a paperwork nightmare. I am glad that all worked out ok.
Blessings,
Dawn
Mar. 26, 2009 - Praisey...
Posted by kentuckymommy
I am reading this my kiddos and laughing all the while....we haven't had something loke this ever happen....so am I in the clear until number 6? I am not so sure with Bethie around! And I am so sorry to hear about the croup....
Mar. 26, 2009 - Praisey...
Posted by kentuckymommy
I am reading this my kiddos and laughing all the while....we haven't had something loke this ever happen....so am I in the clear until number 6? I am not so sure with Bethie around! And I am so sorry to hear about the croup....
Mar. 26, 2009 - too funny Misti
Posted by Anonymous
We too have called poison control for too many things with Hailey and Wyatt...Pine Sol cleaner, and the other time excapes me....Too funny about the Tylenol level( well today, not at 1:00 in the AM)...she would have really hated it if she would have had to be admitted, or worse have to take Mucomyst(N-acetylcysteine) Yuck...that nasty egg smell is terrible!!! Some nurses make our OD pt drink it straight.....no grape juice for them (synical laugh) Thanks for the laughs!!!! Char
Mar. 27, 2009 - Beautiful
Posted by Anonymous
Absolutely the most innocent looking thing in the world. I saw your status on Facebook and was afraid to ask. I had one of those days yesterday myself except it involved my best friend's daughter and a dog bite to the face. We were at the hospital until after midnight and it happened at 6:00. I am glad she was okay. Love, Renee
Apr. 1, 2009 - So you not selling? :)
Posted by MamaLim
Well, I certainly feel like selling my 21 month old! Grrr.......
Serene
Apr. 20, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Elise
The cuteness really is a sort of self-defense mechanism...very effective.
