To go …. alone!
I’ve written a whole lot about Kid#1 and his little wife my DIL but have relatively kept Kid#2 out of blogosphere uptil now. There was a reason for that – he is sneaky and gets everywhere. I mean e v e r y w h e r e. I can not feel safe and I am sure he will "stumble upon" my blog or may be he has.
As parents to growing up children you can sympathise with me on this one. Every one knows that once kids are born, ME time goes. Kid#1 cottoned on very early to the fact that when Mom went to the loo, one did not barge in, unless one wanted to be confronted by a raging demented female desperately trying to hold on to her bladder and the tatters of her privacy and dignity. Kid#2 refused to understand that simple fact. Even when I made this poster and hung it on the door of the loo
Toilet... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its life time mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before………… ALONE!!!!
Yeah I tried. It was a long long time before it worked. Finally he decided that he had had his fun out of baiting me and he gave up. Sigh!! The loo thingy is back again with different faces. I wake up in the morning and have to go, and it’s a parade. The dogs somehow realize that I am going to go and race in before I get to the throne, and are eagerly waiting for me to sit. I don’t get it. Why? What do boys and dogs get out of seeing their mother in the bathroom?
When I was toilet training Kid#2, I would applaud when he would get it right – he had gone potty on the potty. Yayyyyy. It backfired pretty badly on me. There was a KFC for a short while in New Friends Colony. I went there once and never again, because my Kid#2 applauded me for going su on the potty. It was early – about 11.30 in the morning and there was hardly any customer, so the place was quiet and that high pitched voice of my infant OMG! Needless to say the staff was in splits! Put me off Kentucky Fried Chicken forever.
I think I will have to be about 70 before I get my “Me” time in the loo. May be – or may be there will be a nurse with a bed pan applauding me for going su on the bed pan!!! Gaah!!
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When you gotta go you gotta go...better get used to the company!
I know Ashvina, but on a cold winter day when a dog noses your unclothed ahem seat, its pretty unnerving
Yikes! How do the dogs know when you need to go? Did Kid2 teach 'em to recognise the signs?
Could be possible. I knew it, should've left him to rot in his soiled diapers
My cat is fascinated with water sounds, so when I brush my teeth he sits on the sink or cistern and watches with total concentration (we think he was a plumber in his last life), he also comes running from any corner of the house, drawn to the sound of the washing machine draining ....but LOL your dogs beat my cat
Dogs I tell ya!!! They are so curious to know what I do sitting there ufff
If it makes you feel any better, I sometimes have to go with the brat sitting in my lap
Oh my God! I hope he doesnt say "Mom you stink!"
oh gosh !!! cant get the me time anywhere... i can totally understand my 8 month old wants to be with me and only me if i at home I was thinking it will get better with time but looks like it might get worst
When they grow up they hand over the baton to the pets
as of now they r contend to close the door for me when i go in and then rush to open it for me when i unlatch from inside
Lucky you, they allow you to latch up - mine bawled their hearts out at being shut out
Talk of getting caught with your pants down!
Yeah
'The dogs somehow realize that I am going to go and race in before I get to the throne..'
Gosh! I didn't realize it was a pan Indian phenomenon..the dog in Bangalore does it too..
I wonder if they think its a game?
Well, you are not going to believe this, but my dogs prefer a walk out of the house when I'm in the loo
Ravin you must be raising quite a stink
Ritu, you brought back distant memories which I hoped had faded with the passage of time. [:P] Do you think all children go to the same school to worry their parents over exactly the same thing...????
I think they come pre-programmed from the same place
I lived in New Friends Colony while I was working in Delhi, why the heck did I not meet you?
Its never too late, we can meet up now