I must admit that I did give Joshua the bottle of baby oil to play with, but I swear I screwed the lid on really tight! I turned around for a minute to finish doing something with Kara, and when I turned back around, Joshua was sitting on the floor with the nearly-empty (but not completely!) bottle open and with oil on his lap, on the floor between his legs, and a little bit smeared on his face. He is NOT old enough to know how to twist caps off things yet!!! But I guess I'm wrong. And I'm glad I know for the future. The good things were that it was only a little 1-ounce bottle; the spill was just in a little area on easily-cleanable vinyl; he was just sitting there, waiting for me to clean up the mess, and he wasn't playing in it or crawling around, spreading it everywhere; if he did take a taste, it had to have been just a little; and if he did ingest any, this stuff is probably one of the safest out there.
Children are guaranteed to get into things and make messes unsupervised, but I've been blessed so far with well-behaving Kara. She has colored on a wall once (but it was only in pencil!), and she did eat a little lanolin, but no Vaseline hair (my little sister did that) or Tang on the carpet (see my sister Angela's blog) yet. Joshua's starting the mess-making early apparently. Thanks for keeping me on my toes, Buddy!
2 comments:
Ha Ha! Thanks for the sidenote. That was nothing! Ben was my REAL handful. I'll send you photos as evidence. Anyway - lucky you not having to clean up a huge mess! Cuties. They grow up too dang fast.
Oh yes, it could definitely be worse than some baby oil... try... ketchup or finger nail polish... Or jsut be glad that it was a small spill to remind you it's time to put everything up!
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