Parenthood can be surprisingly disgusting.

I knew before becoming a mom that there was a lot of "grossness" involved in parenthood, but sometimes it still shocks me at just how gross being a mom can be.  I have expected to clean up accidents & barf, be peed on by an infant, and be thrown up on by a sick kid. But Ella took things a step further yesterday.  Yes, this little angel took the level of grossness to a whole new level.

Nate is currently on a business trip, so we had a very relaxed and messy dinner of beef ravioli with a nice bright red tomato sauce.  Both the girls managed to make a royal mess with their dinner, and so when they were done, I stripped off their clothes and took them up to the washer to put stain remover on them.  Ella was just wearing a diaper, running around with a cracker, and extremely happy.  When I came back down, I got down on the ground to start wiping up some of the marinara sauce splatter off of the floor, when Ella came over to me gagging a bit.  I figured that she had stuffed her mouth too full of cracker (which she does ALL THE TIME) and was gagging on it.  She pulled some stuff from her mouth that looked a lot like mushed up cracker, and handed it to me and said, "Yucky."  I didn't think anything of it, and was about to wash my hands off in the sink, when I got a whiff of whatever was in my hand.  It was definitely NOT cracker.  I took a closer sniff, and then quickly went and examined her hands.  That's when I figured out that she had reached into her diaper, taken out a sample of poo, tasted a bit of it, and then spit it back out and handed it to me.  At this point she was REALLY gagging, and then threw up all over the kitchen floor.  I was SUPREMELY grossed out, but have to be thankful that she threw it up and that she happened to throw up all over my stone tile kitchen floor and not the family room carpet, especially considering she had just eaten a healthy helping of bright red marinara covered ravioli.  I have to remember to be grateful for the little blessings.  And then of course, there are the BIG blessings.  No matter how disgusting motherhood can be, my family is the best!!