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Seth gets his first "swirlie"

Posted on December 27, 2005
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Last week Thursday morning started like any other. The new a.m. routine for us is this: Seth awakens, comes into our room and announces he has to pee. He continues to repeat this until he hears me say, ‘Well, then GO POTTY already! He then happily wanders into the master bath and does his “business.”

The other day, after he closed the door, (because suddenly he’s become modest) we heard the usual potty sounds. But then we heard silence. This typically would make me nervous and I would get out of bed to check on him. But being that I hadn’t been sleeping well the entire week and had been having migraines, I continued to lay there — too tired to get out of bed, but not exactly sleeping. After a few minutes, we heard a flush. Then more silence. Then a sploosh, and then a panicky “waahhhhh”!

Upon hearing the “sploosh” Marc and I sprung out of bed. We found Seth on the floor crying. His face, hands, and sleeves were wet. Water was flowing over the toilet rim.

Apparently, Seth felt the need to deposit about half of a roll of toilet paper into the toilet. When it became clogged, he reached in to clear the blockage. Apparently he slipped and landed face first into the toilet. But got his head out of the water long enough to scream.

It scared him senseless. But we figure it’s a blessing in disguise. At some point in his life there will be a few boys that won’t like him. And odds are good they will feel inclined to give him a “swirlie.” We figure the event won’t be nearly as ego-bruising or scarey. Afterall, it will be a familiar path – he got to do the honors himself the first time.

Comments

7 Responses to “Seth gets his first "swirlie"”

Ranger Tom on December 27th, 2005 11:19 am

Oh, too funny!

I simply love to hear of his antics… You should really write a book about him…
Nap Queen on December 27th, 2005 6:03 pm

OH NO!!!! That poor kid. I felt like I needed a bath after reading that post
charles blunt on December 27th, 2005 8:59 pm

Cute , just another one of the joys of bringing up kids .
Isabel on December 27th, 2005 11:58 pm

Poor kid. That would have scared the crap out of me to.

I always thought swirlies were Urban Legends. But I guess not.
Krisco on January 2nd, 2006 3:19 am

Poor little guy. I’m sorry to hear he got his own swirly.

I hope not every boy gets a swirly in his life. Is that true? They all do? I hope not.

Or man, I really was clueless about boys. More than I realized.
Anonymous on May 15th, 2006 11:54 pm

To bad he did not flush himself all the way down the toilet,your problems would be over with,not to mention any future problems would have been solved.
You'reNotFunny on March 22nd, 2007 5:16 am

To the person above: you are an insensitive jerk and your comment is not funny. Clearly you don’t have children (I hope not), and you don’t like them either if you’re saying that about a little boy.

To Lisa: He’s ok! I’m happy he didn’t hurt himself. Warm wishes in raising your beautiful boy.