Aren't They So Helpful?

Saturday night the kids all took baths so they would be clean and shiny for Church the next morning.

Sunday morning my 2 year old came toddling down the hall with her pajamas soaking wet from head to toe. This was beyond a leaky diaper. I thought, "How many cups of milk did we give her last night?"

As I peeled the wet pajamas past her bum I thought, "This diaper is so wet that it has fallen down her pajama pant leg." Except that I didn't find a diaper in her pant leg. Where's the diaper???

That's when I remembered how my “oh so helpful” 7 year old had dressed the Lovely after her bath last night and her father had put her to bed. She slept all night wet and cold with no diaper!!!

This is when I might claim that fathers tend to be completely oblivious to details of child rearing like these while any Mother on earth would surely detect a diaper-less baby bum as she was carrying it to bed. Except then an oblivious father might remind me about the time I sent the kids to Church by themselves in January when I was nine months pregnant and then absentmindedly locked all the doors and got in the bathtub for two hours with the jets on so I couldn't hear my cold crying children outside pleading to be let in until they finally gave up and walked to my friends house who just happened to be home from Church with a sick baby and I was lucky that she was a good enough friend that she didn’t call child protective services on me. Um. At least I think that makes her a good friend.

I’m not sure that putting a baby to bed without a diaper exactly qualifies as child abuse the way locking your children out in the cold does so I think I’ll stop while I’m behind.

Speaking of half dressed, this is what we found as we were getting ready to leave a restaurant the other day. How many times have you calmly eaten dinner with your pants around your ankles?