Quick, before I get Sidetrack'd

1-800-222-1222

Thoughtfully penned on July 30th, 2009 and generally concerning J, Life with littles, Motherhood

Recognize that number? Yep, that’s poison control. That’s the number I had to call last week for the first time. Why? Because Boo decided it might be a good idea to taste a little hand sanitizer.

Little had used the hand sanitizer and handed it to me while I was typing an e-mail. I set the bottle on the desk and went on about what I was doing. A few minutes later the phone rang and I went into the kitchen to answer it. After a couple of minutes on the phone I came back into the living room to find Boo standing in the desk chair with the hand sanitizer pump in his mouth!

I didn’t (and still don’t) know how much he ingested, and there didn’t seem to be much gone from the bottle, but I could smell alcohol on his breath. So, I called poison control. The kind lady took all the facts, gave me a little advice (give him something sweet to drink, watch him for signs of inebriation), and told me to call back if I had any questions. Fortunately, Boo showed no signs of harm and continued to act and play normally.

Little has been around for three years and I’ve never even thought about having to call poison control. You just never know what Boo is going to get into (no matter how hard we try to keep things locked away!). Boys!

Noise from the peanut gallery

  1. Lindsey · July 30th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    oh yes B.O.Y.S. You might want to pray you won’t have two! It can be very interseting on days (as you have observed with my two)!!! I am so glad that he was okay!

  2. Lindsey · July 30th, 2009 at 8:42 am

    I meant to say interesting…sorry read my post today and you will know why I can’t type ;)

  3. hyperactive lu · July 30th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Gosh yes! BOYS!!!! :) And I’m about to have 3?!

  4. BB and Pops · August 8th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    oh my, the time johny drank the cat’s milk ( garage floor, with ants swimming in it) because he was not supposed to have cow’s milk..it did not hurt him (little extra protein) :-) …. and the time he crawled thru the end of the garage..thru play bins, spider webs, and into john’s locked paint cabinet and drank paint brush cleaner—again, it did not hurt him…we had a time getting him out but he got in there !!!and the slamed door which broke his tooth—cathy did that in a chase scene…etc..etc..my, my the memories….you notice who did NOT do these things?????

  5. diane · August 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 am

    The differences between boys and girls sure do emerge early!! I’m glad everything is okay!!

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