Time for bed. Lets get pj's on. Ben walks over to me with the tub of Strawberry Nesquik that he pulled out of the cabinet. Ok. Lay Down. Let's change your diaper and get your pj's on. Shorts off - working on changing his diaper - Ben opens the container of Nesquik ALL over his face. 3/4 of the container is all over him. I start FREAKING out. I'm stuck on the floor, can't get up, trying to get the powder out of his eyes, and there appears to be blood coming from his mouth. Thankfully my friend Sarah was here. She comes over, assures me it's not blood, but strawberry powder that's getting wet. She grabs Ben and takes him to the bath. Ben is deathly afraid of the bathtub all the sudden so he is screaming not only because he is in the bathtub, but also covered in Nesquik. I finally get off the floor, run into the bathroom, get down to my bra and underwear (because I am covered head to toe in strawberry powder as well) and jump in the tub with Ben. Poor Sarah is doing the best she can with a screaming baby and bad back. Now Riley and Wyatt are there. Riley grabbed the vacuum to clean up the living room and also grabbed me a bowl to rinse Ben with. Of course we have no clean towels in the bathroom so Wyatt ran downstairs and grabbed two clean towels from the basement. Sarah grabbed the baby wash for me to soap him up while having Ben cling to me. After Ben was clean Sarah took him out of the tub to dry him off. Riley finished vacuuming and Wyatt came upstairs with the towels.
Both Riley and Wyatt were so scarred because they were so worried about Ben. As he was crying the strawberry powder turned red all over his face and it looked to them like he was bleeding out of every orifice of his face. We finally were able to reassure them that Ben was fine and it just looked scary. As we were all in the bathroom we just looked at each other and started laughing at the total and complete chaos we just went through.
Oh Benjamin - What are we going to do with you? Big thanks to Aunt Sarah, Riley and Wyatt for all working as a team to get Ben (and the living room floor) cleaned up as quickly as possible.
The funniest part of all of this is that while kneeling in the bathtub - having Benjamin cling to me - pouring water all over him and in turn all over the front of myself - because my BIG OLE pregnant belly is so big - my underpants never got wet. As Jason puts it, "Now that's talent."
P.S. I'm still rubbing powder out of my hair and ears.
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