Jan 30 2009
It Takes More Than a Little Vomit to Turn MY Kid Into a Sissy
On Wednesday, Chooch announced that he was awake from his afternoon nap by emitting a blood-curling wail. Running up the stairs, the only rational explanation I could come up with was that Marcy’s inner succubus had emerged and she was finally carrying out her plot to eradicate the bane of her existence. When I reached his room, I found him standing in his crib, tears and snot squirting out all over the place. He pointed next to him and sobbed, “LOOOOOK!!!” Oh my god, she tried to kill him and he killed her first, was my first hypothesis.
“Mommy I PUUUUUUKKKKKKED!!” he wailed, and that was when I saw what he was pointing to was not the grisly corpse of a murdered cat, but an orange pool of vomit glistening and stinking on his mattress. Oh, yummy. I picked him up, tried to mask my disgust and horror so I could properly comfort him, when his body started racking and quaking and I had .0009 seconds to suspend him over the bathroom sink before he began projectiling.
This was his first kid-puke, as opposed to the not-too-rank baby stomach-spooge that consists of nothing more than liquid and perhaps some strained greenbeans. This puke, this delicious toddler puke, was not nearly as friendly and served as a billboard for everything he ate that day. It was seriously all I could do to keep myself from succumbing to the Vomit Chain. This went on for the next four or five hours; Chooch burping up vomit in a bowl held by my shaky, clammy hands, to the melodious tune of strangulating “blarrrrrrrrr”s.
The first two or three times, as I tenderly rubbed his back and tried not to cry, I engaged in an inner monologue that went something like this:
Oh, poor kid. If I could puke for him, I would. Huh. What a completely selfless and maternal thought to think. I won’t even give that kid the cherry off my sundae, and now I’m wishing I could be his puking proxy?
Oh my god, I’m becoming a mother. I mean, obviously I’m a mother, but now I’m acting like one? I think that means I’m growing old. Time to add the best of American Idol, Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand to my playlist. Ok, I admit that Barbra’s already on there.
That album she recorded with the Bee Gees was so masterful. Do I have to cut my hair real short now, I wonder? Oh ew, he’s puking on my hand. Jesus Christ. No, not on the cat! Oh fuck it’s my turn to puke. I want Henry to get ice cream. No, pie. No…ice cream.
That kid is so fucking weird. Every time he’d finish expelling his stomach contents, he’d push the bowl at me and forcefully demand, “Put it on the table! I’m done. Wash my hand off! I playin’ cars.” And then he’d slide off the couch and play with his toys with the aggression of a kid who had NOT just been puking his guts up. Henry and I kept trying to coax him to sit on the couch and relax, but he’d have no part of that. He wanted to go-go-go. So he’d play for a half an hour, and then proceed to fill up the bowl with more sick-juice like it was an everyday thang. After the second time, he managed to puke without even crying, which is something I certainly have yet to master. I mean, I puke and then proceed to curl up in a pathetic ball on the bathroom floor and pray for the demons to take my soul. Not my kid. He pukes with all the verve and determination of Rambo. I half-expected grenades, nails and Clint Eastwood’s brass balls to be landing in his puke bowl.
That kid, he’s kind of my hero.
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One day, I hope to have a Chooch of my own, much like your Chooch. Tough AND adorable, it doesn’t get much better in my book.
That’s like, the best compliment ever. Thank you:)
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Chooch is my hero too!
and so are you
because if I had a kid, the second barf shows up, I’d return them for a refund. Lucky for me being a huge mo, I get to adopt. So I have this option.
I also have the option to adopt an older kid
like, I could totally adopt some gorgeous 21yr old Scandinavian sexpot. It would be like dating except faster and more noble sounding. WHO IS GOING TO STOP ME!? You? HA. Selfish of you to even try! Here I am opening up my arms because there are sexy scandinavian guys who need homes. And just because I don’t go through all the red tape of real adoption agencies, and fine them on street corners, means so little and I hate that you even bring it up! Does it matter? no. I am doing some GOOD in the world.
So don’t you fucking judge me
my last therapist said that sharing ALL my ideas isn’t a good idea in itself.
maybe I should have listened to that advice instead of calling her a stupid bitch and demanding my money back
This is an option I would totally get behind! 21yo Scandinavian sexpot? You will never get rid of me. I will come up with all kinds of ridiculous excuses to come to your house.
What? The sugar back in Pittsburgh is terrible. May I please have a cup of yours?
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aw, you’re an excellent mom… proven by such an awesome child.
chooch has always been my hero, too.
especially as he gets cool hair.
The one time Delia got sick I was thinking the same thing about wishing I could do it for her. The poor kid was covered in mucus and miserable. It was seriously nasty, but I would have take it off her hands in a second.
I love that he was all like “I’m done now” and refusing to give in. Go Chooch!
It’s such a heartbreaking thing! I’m not sure if I will feel the same the first time he diarrheas in his big-boy underpants though.
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Don’t know what it is, but your descriptive writing actually created the taste of vomit in MY mouth. Which, you know, I’m not really thanking you for.
Poor kid. I used to throw up every single year like clockwork on Christmas Eve (excited), and thought my sister had special restraint because she didn’t. Thank god that stopped eventually.
AW Elaine! That is such a cute fact about you. I mean, it must have sucked for you at the time, but it’s still kind of cute that you got THAT excited for Christmas.
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First he’s upset about the puke, then he’s all business. While I do feel bad that his vomit was projectile, that was rather amusing.
Hahaha oh god. That’s terrible. And hilarious. And I promise not to get so far behind on your blog again. Geeze.
I hate puking. It’s the worst. The last 2 times I puked it was because I drank way too much. And both times I ended up sitting in the bath tub puking all over myself. Haha oh god. that’s gross.