what a toddler can eat...

we made our first call to poison control this morning...as i was checking blogs & FB & news, addy was apparently investigating my purse. she had EVERYTHING out, then decided to come & sit by amelia on the couch (millie was sleeping) & just sat there putting chapstick all over her face for who knows how long before i noticed what she had. so i sort of laughed & asked "did you put it on your lips?" & she nodded yes & then i asked "did you eat it?" & she nodded yes, then she proceeded to take a bite off the top! yuck. so then i told her that's pretty gross & we needed to put it away & THEN i noticed that all the contents of my purse lay on the floor. then i noticed the TUMS all over the floor. so i asked her if she ate the tums & showed them to her & she nodded very enthusiastically, yes (they are the berry flavor!).

so i made a quick call to wes to look up toddlers eatings tums on the internet & he came away with calling poison control. so we called. turns out she's going to live! they were a bit more concerned with how much of the chapstick she ate instead of the tums. (apparently, she wouldn've had to eat many more than 2 or 3, which is all that was in the package, plus the 6 she left on the floor). she needs to drink lots of water & then we can try to "burp" it out of her...that should be interesting! i already feel like i'm getting carpal tunnel from burping amelia, there needs to be a burping machine made & sold at target.

anyway, poison control is even sending us a fridge magnet for future incidents! how sweet. i guess i slowed down over the weekend just having a baby to look after (addy was with wes' parents since friday). here's to burping a toddler today!