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I don’t have any great or awesome or funny post for you today. I didn’t even have time to scrap a crappy one together. It’s been a rough weekend for this single dad and his kiddo.
This is how it started:
Now, this may look like any normal photo of my child (besides that it’s lacking his trademark ear-to-ear smile). But this is actually cropped down from a much larger photo which I have included on page 2.
Yes, it’s the picture on page two that is worth a thousand words. And I’m telling you right now, don’t look at it if you can’t stomach, ummm, really gross things. I put it on its own page for a reason. It’s that bad; though, most parents probably won’t flinch.
For those who do check it out…
Yes, that’s an iPad.
Yes, it’s real.
Yes, it took hours to clean up.
Good news is, Noah is feeling much better now.
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awww poor guy!!!
glad he's feeling better though!
That was pretty much my entire last month, except replace the food vomit with coughed up lung phlegm... Seriously gross, and very little sleep... Parenting is the least glamorous job in the world, yet I wouldn't trade it for the world. Hope he's feeling a lot better... Did the iPad survive?
Poor thing, and him too! LOL I get it Dan, I get it. Twins and an infant, my God I get it.
Awww, poor baby! Glad he's feeling better! I once caught my daughter's puke in my hands -- to save the carpet. Yep, that's what parents do! lol
awww poor guy!!!
glad he's feeling better though!
Awwwh bless him, I must have a really mean sense of humour... I laughed.
So much for ordering French Fries at lunch today...!
o_O congrat's, you both get through... I'm happy to know he's doing better ^_^
poor kid! Glad to see you're ignoring the "superiors". All parents have been through this. Sometimes repeatedly in one night, on every single bed and couch in the house (and yes, my mouth). 10 years later we laugh about it
Oh I saw. Poor baby! I he's doing better.
Oh my, had to swallow my coffee quickly so I wouldn't spit it out laughing....my experience with mobile vomit is extensive, and it IS funny after the fact. Love you! You put it in the proper perspective for Noah by treating it lightly, as an event rather than a traumatic experience....xoxo
Oh, BARF...um, never mind! I am happy that he's feeling better...gotta bring a 'bucket' with you if you know he's feeling icky...live and learn. And how did *YOU* stomach it as the cleaner? I prolly would have hurled myself cleaning up after an incident like that.
Oh man. We dealt with that almost a month ago. Three days of constant vomit and diarrhea, and one trip to Primary Children's = not fun for single parents, I feel ya. Especially when you come down with the same thing a couple days into it..
Awww poor baby! Glad he is feeling better. Flu and other bugs are hard hitting this year. Everyone watch your kids close - its a BAD year for bugs, and please get your flu shots.
OMG!! Yep - been there!! It is even more of a treat when one son throws up, grosses my other son out and he throws up too!! Awwwwww, living the dream :) Hang in!! Better days ahead :) You are an AWESOME Dad!!
@HollyRobertsonNichol
SYMPATHY Puker? YIKES!
I gave up trying to post this on your blog cause it won't work! Just be glad it wasn't the middle of summer. I was once a single parent of 2 small boys so I have much experience with this, unfortunately.
Poor Noah Bear!
better than 105 degree weather... trust me
My dad had to take his shirt off to cover my behind and walk me into a gas station bathroom after I threw up all over my lap. So, you're not the only one.
LOL I just dealt with this from my 5 & 6 year old grandsons that live with me the weekend before Christmas, one got my big comforter that wont fit in my washer...so i got to spend the day at the laundromat fun fun!! Then i ended up with it on Christmas Eve :)
totally crappy. the smell!
Dan...it happens. There's some humor in it after you've cleaned everything... having the frame of mind to take a picture, now that's priceless. Hope he's feeling better and that you managed to clean everything without gagging too much lol
He'll really thank you someday for that picture. Not!!! My son couldn't go more than a mile without puking in the car until he was about 10. We had to take barf bags everywhere we went! Hope the little guy is feeling better.
Poor guy...Feel better Noah!
Poor little boo. Glad he's feeling better.
At least it wasn't in your lap. I've been the proud recipient of puke in the lap...just sayin'.
Ugh! Cannot stomach the throw up stuff- would NOT have been able to stop and take a pic of it myself. Glad he feels better now. Poor kid! (and poor dad!)
Sorry - but am I the only one laughing here! I have 3 of my own - been there, done that! And about the only thing you can do (other than clean it up) is laugh when this kind of stuff happens!
Oh dear! Been there several times. UGH. Hope Noah is feeling better soon!
One too many fish tacos? Hope he gets better soon.
Poor guys!!! Feel better soon Noah!!!
Oh man. Puke happens at the most wonderful times! Parenting's most defining moments...definitely a picture for a wedding slideshow!
@Miranda Fillmore It's like their little bodies just know when you are 20 miles from the nearest place to clean them up and BAM, there it comes.
Poor guy. I know that look well...
And poor dad...Well, at least with the 6° weather the smell wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Sick kids are bad at any age - my 22 and 24 year old sons got hit with the Norovirus this weekend. All I have to say is: Thank GOD for 2 bathrooms in the condo!
Hope he gets better. Yucky
My son had projectile vomiting for 6 months... 6 MONTHS at the poorest time in my life as a parent too. No washer and dryer, no hot water and living a a building I was to scared to walk out the door of... If you can picture 15 or so Hefty bags filled with everything imaginable covered with vomit, then you have a really great mental photo of the first year of his life and mine as a parent... it was 'challenging'. We won't mention his mentally challenged father or the cockroaches that has my son and I living on a bed the whole time either.... Oh the books I will write...
@MicheleClarkPowell - Who has a kid with a retard?
@iwmckay @MicheleClarkPowell Ahhhh, look! Another one!! Good thing I learned to how to spot a jerk when I see one!
Peace @sshole
@MicheleClarkPowell @iwmckay OMG that was GREAT!
DeeDee
www.KidNeedsAKidney.blogspot.com
glad little Noah is feeling better....that is one nasty pile of puke, lol and glad ur iPad made it through okay too, lol
Dan, I know that was not a fun experience, but it sure did make for a funny story. Imagine if you will this story, when our daughter was 9mths old we decided to take her from North Carolina to Southern California on an airplane to see her grad parents for the first time. Within minutes of take off she started to run a temperature and shortly after threw up, at least a bucket full. Me and my wife had packed everything in suit cases and did not carry anything on except two pampers. There we were stuck in the air for 5 hours surrounded by 200 people that could of not been very happy with their lot. I knew for sure that they would find away to pop open the door and throw us out...it was not to be so, several other passengers ran to our aid with wash cloths and a change of clothes for her...an elderly couple in first class gave up their seats to us so we could be more comfortable, and by the time we landed in California our daughter was feeling fine. Even now 26 years later when I fly I pack wash clothes and a few other things just in case I come across some other overly confident, miss guided parent in a similar situation...I have lived the embarassment.
@Iamrichard Ziplock bags. They are the answer to almost every traveling parent problem LOL.
DeeDee
www.KidNeedsAKidney.blogspot.com
Seems almost as bad as what I had to clean up today. Sorry he so sick. It's never a fun moment.
With six kids, I have definitely had my share of those days. Feel for you.
So sorry you and Noah had to go through this! It's been going around our house, too. I take care of both of my granddaughters and my great niece. So far, we've had two cases of pneumonia, three bouts of the stomach bug, and two cases of the flu with high fevers for several days. My granddaughters are 7 and 9, so I gave them "up-chuck buckets" so they wouldn't get too much on the carpet. My great niece is only 2, so I just tried to stay close enough to catch any fallout....lol! Unfortunately she also had diarhea. I turned around for 5 seconds to answer the phone and when I turned back she was pulling her diaper down and had poop all over her hand and the carpet! She looked really upset and said "Aunt Kate, help!" I could only laugh as I rushed her to the bathtub.
Poor buddy. Good for you to document though, Dad ;). When my husband is home with our kiddos and calls because something calamitous has happened my first question is usually, "Did you take a picture?" Some day the kids won't believe crap like this happened and we will be able to show them that Mom and Dad aren't full of crap. Life is never dull, is it?
Oh, poor Noah! And poor you! You're right, it's not a one person job but when it has to be it is. A lot of dads would reach for the iPad while screaming, "Oh GAWD! Yuck!" before taking care of the child. Hell, a lot of moms probably would, too. Kid first, then tech. So glad you're a great dad! Noah is a lucky kidling. :)
Yup. Definitely life with kids.
I'm so glad I have no sense of smell and don't react to kids who are making the vomiting sound. Ooy. My sympathies to you and I know how hard it is to clean up these things when you do have a sense of smell and are sensitive to those noises.
Poor Noah, and poor you! And I had a feeling what the second pic would show. Doesn't bother me-I'm a pediatric OR nurse. I'm used to it! Hope he's feeling better!