Karma

If you are at all familiar with Buddhism or My Name is Earl you know the notion of Karma. What goes around comes around. If you do good things, good things come to you, and if you don’t do good things, well, sometimes bad things happen.

So I think tonight was Karma kicking me hard. I had been mulling in my head for a while a post about the fact that Nate isn’t quite walking yet at 11 months, and that Alex was already walking by now. I am trying so hard not to compare, but it still happens. I am 99 percent OK with that, and the fact that he will walk when he is ready and not a second earlier, but there is 1 percent that is disappointed, as he was doing so many things earlier than Alex and I thought he would be on the same or earlier track for walking too.

Remind me never, ever, EVER to even entertain the thought that Nate should do things earlier than Alex did.

Tonight I was flying solo (Mike had a late court hearing). Got the kids fed just fine, got them in the tub. Had just sat down to use the potty myself when I see Nate lunge across the tub toward the faucet — with a trail of poop hanging out behind him. Nate’s inaugural Code Brown (well, TMI, but it was really more orange…ewww). Forget rubber gloves. I just instinctively reached in and grabbed with my bare hands as quickly as I could before it broke up too much, and plopped it right into the toilet. Flush that down, grab Nate and haul him out of the tub. Have Alex open the drain and then pull him out. Both of them standing there nekkid in the middle of the bathroom while the water drains. I grab the sanitizing spray and have Alex hand me every toy. Rinse, spray, drop in sink, repeat. Then I run super hot water in the tub to get any and all particulate matter down the drain. Then I spray the tub down with sanitizer and set a two minute timer. Finally, I plop the kids back in and scrub them over REALLY well with soap.

Alex was 2 years old the first time he had a Code Brown. This must be Karma for even thinking that Nate should do things on anything other than his own pace. He showed me!