Potty Mouth

Just writing this is making my stomach churn, thinking about it. It all starts with Ben's fasination with flushing the toilet. No big deal, right? He goes in, he flushes the toilet, I hear it flush, I shoo him out of the bathroom.

Well, yesterday, I hear a drawer open and close, AND the toilet flush...so I know immediately that I have 2 culporates in the bathroom. I go in, and in a matter of seconds I take it all in...Zae climbing up onto the counter, digging into drawer. Not really a big deal. Then I take in Ben's activity of choice...drinking out of a water bottle. Which in and of itself isn't a bad thing. The 'circumstantial evidence' is what creates the automatic gag reflex. The fact that he is walking away from a just flushed toilet, with his hands and forearms wet, drinking from a water bottle that not only has a little water on the inside, but also evidence of water on the outside...which stands to reason that the bottle was dipped into something to get the water inside, not placed under a running tap...as one would hope.

Instintively I grab the water bottle, dump it out and throw it away, at the same time grabbing Benjamin and turning on the tap water and scrubbing with soap up to his elbows, and thoroughly rinsing out his mouth. The whole while thinking of if and how much 'toilet' water he drank. Also realizing that our only potty trained child (Jakob) doesn't always flush the toilet when done using it. (eeewww...my tummy is churning right now~good thing I didn't eat much for breakfast). Well, he doesn't seem the worse for wear. As Jon says, what doesn't kill you makes you stonger. And don't studies show that if you let your kids be exposed to some germs that they are likely to be more healthy? On that thought, I think I will close my commintary of the episode.