POO EMERGENCY IN THE KITCHEN!!!

Yesterday we had a poo emergency in the kitchen.
If you had told me 5 years ago that in five years you will have a 2 year old and have to deal with poo emergencies and many other things along the way I probably would have laughed in your face and said something like - you don't know me very well do you?

but here I am, getting woken up at 7 am on my sleep in morning by my wife screaming Joooo we have a poo emergency in the kitchen, I then hear the shower running as I drag myself into the kitchen to see a nappy open with poo spilling over and then poo on the stool (stool on the stool, he he) - floor - and even on the cupboard door.

now just to give you a bit of background, Sofi and I have been ECing squeaky since he was 6 months old.
a short explanation is EC means elimination communication or early potty training.(google it if you're interested in it, as a side note, if you have babies or are going to have babies I can highly recommend the practice, its easier cleaner and well you have less pooey nappies to deal with)
so Squeaky has been pooing on the potty for a good 18 months now, and an emergency like this one isn't so common in our household, but as life goes he's been a bit sick and as a result I think this one may have snuck up on him a little.

and here I am calmly cleaning up poo. looking for the disinfectant - disinfecting everything, and having a little chuckle to my self.
he he - poo emergency.
I am reminded of years ago when my sisters kids were small and her youngest was about the same age as squeaky is now, I was chatting on the phone to my brother in law and he all of a sudden goes
oop gotta go 'little one' just took off her nappy and there's shit all over the house bye!

it puts a great image in your head doesn't it?

one of the crazy things about having kids is that you find you self doing things that for all intents and purposes are not normal, but they are, and you know you have to do them because that's what you do as a parent . I will speak here of the daily poo inspection. I find myself looking at his poo with intent and curiosity.
Seeing what is coming out the other end, looking for abnormalities, is there blood? does he have worms? oh we had kiwi fruit yesterday.
its just weird.
And you don't even think twice about it until you sit down to write a blog about poo and you realise that your whole life now revolves around it, you have entire conversations with your partner and other parents about it.
this is not normal.
why is it that when you have kids suddenly conversations about poo suddenly become an everyday experience?, like saying hi hows it going?,
why don't we just say ,hows your kids poo today?
oh its a bit loose today but I think he ate something dodgy last night, hows yours?

so any way its potty time, gotta go make sure squeaky's poo is looking ok and then that he doesn't empty his potty all over the floor.

J