Mr. Mom Moment #1 - The Bathroom Break

I thought I’d share some “Mr. Mom Moments” with you. I’ve been thinking that someone should remake this movie. After a few more of these moments I’m thinking that maybe I’ll take a crack at rewriting it!

As I have not been taking care of kids for most of my life, I sometimes have to make things up on the fly. Like when my 10-month-old boy and I were home alone and nature called. He’s in his ‘learning to walk’ stage, which is also his ‘stand up and take a few steps then bang your head on something coming back down’ stage. We don’t have a 100% childproof room, and he doesn’t much like being put down in a crib and walked away from (unless he’s sleeping, of course). The playpen was upstairs and the bathroom was not. Thus my dilemma.

Using the limited tools within arms reach, I pulled his ‘piano-toy-thing’ into the bathroom and put one end of it up against the door. This thing is open on both ends and has toys on the sides with big piano keys for him to step on as a floormat. If that doesn’t explain it, it’s not really that important, just that there was still one open end after I put it up against the door. I had time to pull in a footstool from right outside the door as well, so I pushed the footstool up against the open end. Problem solved – until he started to push against the footrest! I quickly grabbed the diaper pail, clothes hamper and waste basket and propped them all up in a line against the offending footrest. Problem solved for the second time!

Then he started to learn how to climb…how do mothers do this 24-7?