My kids' grosser than yours....

Yesterday, we had beautiful weather.  It was sunny, and about 70 when we got home.  The girls sprinted for the back yard, and I, happy and alone, began making dinner.  As the soup I was making began to simmer, I sat down at the computer to enter the recipe and point it out so I could track it.  As I was doing this, the dog came running inside.

Mia was yelling at the dog to come back outside, and he was running around like a little maniac.  That's when the smell hit.  *sniff, sniff* "What is that?"  It smells like a barn with cows. Why does the dog smell like a barn?  "Mia, why does the dog smell?

"He rolled in poop, Mommy."

"GET OUTSIDE!!!!!"

We got the dog outside, and Olivia came inside to get the dog shampoo, a bucket and washcloths.  The girls began washing him pretty much everywhere.  There was poop on the collar, which was taken off an thrown into the yard.  Olivia claimed we needed a new one.

I came to help and scrubbed the poop out of the dogs shaggy curly hair.  Once we could finally see no more poop, on him, he was dried off.  The girls, thought this was their cue to go back to playing.

"Uh...do you really think you get to go back to playing when you've had your hands in poop-water and been cleaning poop off the dog? Get inside and wash those hands....AND DO A GOOD JOB!"

The girls come in as I'm filling the washer with the dirty dog cleaning supplies.  They try to run out doing a quick cleaning job, but I call them back in to wash hands again.  While in the bathroom, I'm behind them, watching them wash.

"What happened?  Were you cleaning up the dog poop?"

"No"

Then Mia pipes up.  "It was my poop."

Uh......what?

"Do you mean that you pooped outside?  You took your tights off, and your underwear down and you pooped - IN MY YARD?!

"Yes"

"And the dog rolled around in it somehow?"

"Yes"

~File this under things you never would have thought you'd have to tell your daughter.  "We do not poop in the yard.  We poop in the toilet.  We are not dogs.  Dogs poop outside, people use toilets inside."~

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