Our Little Grease Monkey

One good old regular week night Aaron and I agreed that I should go do our 2 week grocery shopping while he got the kids ready for and put to bed.  I had a peaceful time doing the massive amount of shopping and came home to a quiet house with kids in their rooms.  Aaron turned to me and said, "They're both still awake." and since it was an hour past bedtime I knew we'd need to help the kids out and check for dirty bums.  Aaron took Porter's door and I was headed for Priya's when Aaron let out some loud frightened exclamation upon opening Porter's door.  I hurried over to look and Porter was covered in something reflecting the little bit of light we had.  We quickly started asking the same questions, "What is that?  He's covered. Is that vomit?  Blood?  Diarrhea?"  While we fumbled for the light.  Once we got the light on we were able to quickly start putting the pieces together.  Porter was having terrible eczema with the changing of the seasons, we were applying aquaphor (a healing ointment) multiple times as day to his skin and we were just keeping the container on his dresser.  Well Porter didn't get any before bed, was having a hard time sleeping, found the container, opened it (kind of a big deal for our boy who struggles with fine motor skills) and then completely emptied the entire container and applied the ointment all over himself.  Once Aaron and I realized Porter was not in any apparent danger we curled up on the floor next to each other laughing until we cried.  Thank goodness we could laugh about it.  The clean up process was not easy. It was impossible to hold on to Porter and everything he touched became a slippery as he was.  The internet is amazing and we found some tricks.  We covered Porter in Corn Starch to absorb the oil based ointment.  Once again grateful I keep corn starch in my food storage because it has endless play recipes, we had plenty on hand to clean up the mess, we do need to restock now though.  We did this several times then we used his regular soap with a little bit of baking soda to cut through the oil and clean him off.  It works pretty well but it took 2 hours.  Then another hour to get him carpet to a point that we could leave it over night until we had enough energy to clean up the whole mess.  The next day we used a Dawn dish soap solution in our carpet cleaner to attempt to get the mess out of our carpet and it worked.  Not harm, no foal!  It could have been so much worse and what's life without a few curve balls.  We sure do love the adventures and laughs our children provide for us.

We took this at almost midnight.  He watched a show while we worked on his room.  Porter had some really awesome spiky hair the next few days that followed.  

It actually cleared up his eczema.  Guess he knew what he was doing!