Kids are gross

I'm pretty sure this line has been uttered by every parent ever.

In the entire history of the earth.


Kids are the most gross in the middle of the night. When they wake you up because of some bodily fluid they happen to be spewing.

Right now there's a sick baby in the other room. He's got a fountain of snot where his nose used to be.

It renders him incapable of breathing, therefore he is super agitated about this new development and resorts to complaining in the only way he knows how. Tear factory.

He cries when he's coughing.
He cries when he's snotting.
He cries when I try to fix it.
He cries when I'm done.

And now I have to worry about a measles outbreak. I'm pretty sure a rash all over would make him even more pleasant. not.

I think this is the stage in parenting where your parents are giggling in corners about the whole predicament. They remember how YOU used to be. I think time has dulled those memories.

This is why parents and adult children get into disagreements about the whole situation. It's never as bad as it is when it's happening to you. Right now. At 4 o'clock in the morning. An hour and a half before the alarm goes off. While you sneak out of bed as quietly as possible because you're still on maternity leave and you want a happy spouse in the morning.

So yeah

Kids are gross.
I'm so looking forward to other instances of grossness. *cries in the corner*

TTFN