You know you're a parent when...
you voluntarily will put your hands out to catch another person's vomit! I never thought that this would be something that I would ever do, nor did I ever have the desire to do.
Last night after we had a fun time at Zoo Lights we went to go eat and Jude got sick while we were eating. He has done this before but he was able to start feeling better, or so he told us, and we made the mistake of allowing him to eat more. Now Censie had been sick all Saturday with a stomach bug but we did not think that Jude was sick. He ate some food and we left.
On our way home he started complaining that his stomach hurt. I found a place to pull over but then he said that he was feeling better. We got going again trying to make it home as soon as possible, you know trying to prevent the puking in the car fiasco. We made it about five more minutes and he said that his stomach hurt again. I pulled over and got a paper bag and tried to get him to aim in the bag. FYI a paper bag and vomit do not work well seeing how vomit is mostly water!!
Jude ended up getting sick and without any other options I cupped my hands and tried to catch as much of the vomit in my hands to prevent it from getting on him. It was a pretty useless attempt but I do have to say it was an attempt to help out. This again is something that I never thought I would do but as a parent sometimes you just have to open your hands and let your child vomit! I guess I got my initiation into dealing with a sick toddler as well!
