I hear about the tots that have a penchant for ripping their nappies off and the odd one that even smears the brown stuff on the walls and fine home furnishings, and I shudder.
Only by the grace of some higher power, my girls have never had the impulse. But last night, in some form of magic trick, 21-month-old Miss A, for the first time in her life, somehow removed her nappy without taking her jimjam pants off.
My wife came home from work and found Miss A yapping on about having a "wet mappy" and then saw the discarded nappy on the floor of the living room (it was actually bone dry). She was incredulous as to how Miss A still had her pants on.
I was on the computer and missed the whole thing. Miss A's older sister suspiciously denied all knowledge.
Did Miss A remove her pants then take the nappy off then put her pants back on? Or did she liberate her nappy by giving herself a gale force wedgie (American slang for having your undies pulled upward in a violent manner, sometimes to the point of them being ripped from your body).
I'd like it to be the first option, but I think the latter is the more likely scenario, because I've never seen her put a pair of pants on unassisted.
The rip-into-it, destruction, method is more her style. It always has been. It always will be. I may be proved wrong as she grows up.
Since we introduced the magical, yet far more expensive Pull Up toilet training nappy pants into her life she's been rejecting the plain old baby nappies.
We still put her in a normal nappy after her bath, but she complains pretty strongly that: "I want a Pull Up!!!".
There's just no chance that a Pull Up would contain all of the moisture that flows forth throughout the night.
I'm looking forward to the next few months when her toilet training makes some progress.
But we're not rushing her.
Till then, I'd like Miss A to keep the nappy on unless she's charging around the back yard naked or jumping into the bath.
I'm hoping her nappy Houdini act was just a one off.
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