Friday, October 10, 2008

Kobie Stories: the fecal edition

Most of the best Kobie stories have a lot to do with poop. Here are a few of my personal favorites:
One night, I came home after the kids were in bed and started getting ready to go to bed myself. I went in the bathroom and glanced into the shower where there were pieces of poop in the tub. I have yet to figure out exactly how that happened because Jackie had given Kaylee a bath, and I assume that she helped Kobie a little, then Kross took a shower. I'd like to think that 10 year olds don't poop in the shower, but I'd also like to think that no one would take a shower with poop on the floor either. Anyway, the next day, Candice and I were both in the bathroom for Kobie to start his bath. He was putting some toys in the tub and we were having a talk about whether he had pooed in the tub and how even if it wasn't him, that pooping in any public place is completely unacceptble. He got in and was playing with one of his dinosaurs, then made a comment about one of the dinos being dirty. He put it up on the side and asked if I would "get the mud off it." It certainly did not end up being mud! Candice did a sniff check (she's so brave- she's my hero around here). All of us in the bathroom came to a mutual decision that the dinosaur was too gross to clean and should go in the trash. Kobie kept sticking to his story that he didn't leave the dump, but he did have a kinda guilty face. I guess we'll never know.
In the last couple of weeks, Kobie has started pooping in his pants. It started with the skidmark checks on his underwear a couple months ago. I've done a couple of those since I blogged about that last time. A few weeks ago, Norm and I were left alone with the kids for a week. One night, as he was getting into his bath, he told Candice that he'd "forgotten to tell her something"- that he'd pooped in his pants while he was playing outside. He just hadn't felt like coming in, so he'd carried the load around with him for an hour or more. About a week after that, I was at home fixing dinner while the kids were at soccer practice. The came in about 3o minutes early and Kobie came in first saying "you aren't gonna woop me are you?!?" Jackie followed him with "No but you better get in that bathtub now" and Kross followed them in with the story. Kobie had pooped himself during practice and then had run around the park telling everyone. He gone in the underwear at least one more time since then. Jackie throws out his underwear every time this happens and the poor kid didn't have that many pairs to begin with. I'm kind of interested to see what happens in a few more weeks if he doesn't cut it out. Kobie might be goin' commando!
I'm going to let Candice take the story from here-

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