The turd that turned the day

Today started off like any other day. On the heels of a rather bad evening, I had high hopes for a normal day. No tantrums, no mishaps, no ridiculous-ness over simple things. Alas, I was proved to be wrong!

It started with exciting news at first. Ellis is breaking his first upper tooth. His first tooth broke last Wednesday. He has been super crabby over it, lots of drama and excitement. But finally, TEETH! Since it's Tuesday, and I am crazy, it is grocery store day so we headed over to Target because I had a gift to return. In the midst of getting lost in the toy and Halloween aisles, I lost my grocery list, which took me half an hour to make the night before. Whatever, I winged it and actually did a good job of getting everything that I needed! I get to the register and realize IMMEDIATELY that I forgot my wallet at home (I left it in my purse when I went to EXTREME scrapbooking - something I was an hour late to because I was in the shower before I remembered I needed to be there!). I had to drive home and back again with wallet the second time to pay for my spoils. In the middle of that, Ellis fell asleep in the car so I carried him in the sling completely asleep as I paid for my groceries. Thank goodness for small favors!

After that, we got home and I was going to make lunch. Clara always pushes away (even though I tell her not to) everything that is in front of her "space" at the table. This time, it was my cup of old coffee which she proceeded to spill ALL over the recipes I had on the desk and herself, her chair, the toys that had gathered underneath the table and everything else within a five foot radius of the incident. After cleaning that up, Clara dropped a honey dew on her chair and proceeded to grind her new crocs into the melon into a mushy pile of gooey green goodness. My lord, and it wasn't even 1 o'clock yet!

But... all of a sudden, out of no where, Clara asked to sit on the potty and I threw her on thinking she would spend her usual hour in there reading book (and I do not exaggerate) but within minutes she told me she peed on the potty. Or so that is what I thought that she said. I went in there to clean her up and there was a TURD in the TOILET! I was so excited. That turd totally made my day. Sure, spill coffee everywhere, drive an extra 20 minutes so I can then buy my lukewarm milk. But poop in that potty missy and I am on CLOUD NINE!