WHY would someone poop on a slide at a playground? We took the boys to the school last night to play on the playground for an hour before bedtime. Jaxson was having a great time but Connor was hanging around us trying to listen to our adult conversation. Jade was telling Connor to go play on the slide and Connor was telling him, " I can't. It has poop on it" Now, let me clarify why we didn't rush over and immediately check the slide out. Connor has a way of making things up when he doesn't want to do something. We figured it was probably a blueberry smear or a dirt smear on the slide and he was using it as an excuse. Connor sees Jaxson going up the slide so he FINALLY runs over to play with him. I am in mid sentence with Jade when all of a sudden I see Jaxson throw something long and brown off the slide. It looked like a pine cone. My heart dropped because I knew it wasn't a pine cone. I ran over to the slide and sure enough....someone had done their business on the slide and Jaxson was in the process of sliding right through it. He had it on his hands, clothes, and shoes. It was GROSS! We had to take him to the car and strip all of his clothes off and wipe him down with antibacterial wipes. We came straight home and put him in a HOT bathtub. I don't know what this world is coming to. I live in an area where I wouldn't think to look for needles or anything at the local school but I guess I need to check the equipment for feces before I let my kids play on it.
Now, you may be asking yourself, doesn't she have anything else to blog about? Yes, I do but I want to remember this story so I can tell Jaxson when he gets older. It is one of those stories that you use to remind your kids when they are teenagers, that despite what they may think, they haven't always been the "all knowing" We have a poop story that we like to remind my sister of but for the sake of her reputation, I will not publish it.