When I take Summer to the diaper aisle at Target, she crumples at the knees, looks up mournfully like Jesus at the stations of the cross, and laments, "I wish I could go back to Pull-Ups." How gross is that. How totally gross, to pine for an absorbent synthetic disposable wearable TOILET. Is it simply the convenience of peeing without interrupting your ballet demonstration? Summer only pees about once every 48 hours anyway. What is the allure?
One thing that was funny about the Pull-Ups was that Summer liked it when I took a Sharpie and drew evil characters over the princesses printed on the front of each one. Her favorite was Maleficent, the wicked fairy who curses Sleeping Beauty.
Tonight while at Babies R Us buying Table Toppers for Charlie, I saw something else in the checkout line that I had to buy. For the life of me, I cannot figure out who else on planet Earth besides me would buy this item. There were seven of them and I bought six, leaving one just in case, just on the off chance that there is another little girl out there somewhere who, like my Summer, would be overjoyed to keep by her bedside...
A box of Kleenex tissues decorated with pictures of Maleficent.
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