This one is for Biddo too because I know how funny she found it when she read about it on facebook. So, the Great 'Vicks At Naptime' Incident of 2010 starts out like this:
Cate has had a sniffle the last few days so I have been rubbing Baby Vicks on her chest at each nappy change. It smells divine and helps clear her blocked nose so I figured it couldn't hurt. WRONG!
Yesterday I changed Cate, rubbed Vicks on her chest and placed the opened container on the edge of her cot. At that moment she sneezed, snot went flying EVERYWHERE and I dived for a face washer to start repairing the damage. The result? A clean, snot free baby BUT an open jar of Baby Vicks remianed on the edge of the cot. You can see where this is going right?!
An hour later Cate went down for her nap. I rushed in to draw the curtains whilst her milk was heating then came back into the darkened room with my baby bundled up and deposited her and the milk in her cot, kissed her and left. No problems. An hour and half later she cried out for me and I walked in to collect her.
I opened the door and....uh oh...what was that overpowering smell? I mean, sure I put Vicks on her chest, but the whole room now smelt like Vicks. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't unpleasant but it was kinda weird....
...until I got to the cot and saw my daughter. OH MY LORD!!!!!! The Baby Vicks jar, now completely empty, rolled around the cot and Cate was COVERED in the stuff. Her hair, face, sleeping bag, bottle, sheets and toy mirror were COATED. Cue hysteria. From mummy of course - Cate thought it was HILARIOUS.
It's been a rather full on 24 hours since where I have bemoaned my forgetfulness endlessly and frantically phoned family and friends for advice as well as trawling the net for solutions. The end result: seven separate shampoos - some in the bath, some in the shower - two further washes in dishwashing liquid AND (the absolute winner) using a dry shampoo in a can. Twice. The end result is a little girl who may never want to have her hair washed again BUT one who has beautiful, clean, Vicks-free hair. Thank God for that!
Oh dear! We've been doing the Vicks-before-bedtime routine with our two (on the PJs seeing as they're too young to have it on their skin yet) and my toddler got into his Dad's hair wax this morning thinking it was Vicks, so I had a toddler covered in hair wax - would have been fine if he'd put it in his hair - instead it was all over his face and PJs! Oops!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you got her all cleaned up though - isn't it unfortunate that some of the most hillarious things for our kids are the most traumatic for us?!
So true Mel, so true!!!
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