Yuck.

Esther has had 0 accidents so far today. She even went poo in the toilet, as she reminded me, not on the toilet. Anyway, she was working on it while I was nursing Nathan before his nap. I could hear her playing with the costume jewelry ring that she had left on the counter in the bathroom. I called out to her that she had better put it on the counter or she might drop it in the toilet. She put it back, but within 30 seconds forgot what I’d told her. More fidgeting from Esther – then – kerplop! “Mommy!!” I quickly finished up with Nathan and put him down. Then I went to see what the damage was. The ring was sitting at the very back of that hole at the very bottom. If the toilet had just had the yellow stuff in it, I wouldn’t have hesitated. But it wasn’t….

So I did the only thing I could think of to do. I called my mommy!

After my mother regained her composure, (Growl… Though I guess she has every right to laugh as she has been there before. I remember I dropped a stuffed animal into the toilet when I was pretty young – in the middle of the night, no less!) she offered a helpful suggestion. How about using gloves? Why hadn’t I thought of that?

So I donned the plastic gloves, which Esther wanted to wear, tried very hard not to think about it, and got the ring out! After a very hot and long washing of hands and ring, Esther and I had a discussion about the danger of playing with toys while on the toilet.

Yuck. I do not ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to stick my hand in a full toilet again. Ever.