where did the ponytail holder go???

mandksima ↓

Mon, May 04 2009, 3:02 pm

My 10 month old has quite a lot of hair so I put a ponytail on top of his head. He usually leaves it alone. Tonight, I notice the holder is missing and his hair is in his eyes and I can't find it anywhere. Weird, but I'm busy with the kids so I figured I'll get another in a little while.

A few hours later, I start to smell something and take my son to change his diaper.

HOW IN THE WORLD DID THE HOLDER GET IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS DIRTY DIAPER?????????

Theory 1) he swallowed it (gasp) and expelled it in under 2 hours. I really think that is impossible as I didn't hear him gag on it and I think it takes more time than that to go through his system.

Theory 2) he was holding it and threw it in his clean diaper when I didn't see (I change them pretty fast though!)

Theory 3) I was really absentminded when I gave him a new diaper and somehow the holder was stuck to the diaper and landed right in the middle

Okay, what's your theory???

↑ mandksima ↓

Mon, May 04 2009, 3:29 pm

greenfire wrote:

that was yesterday's pony that he swallowed ... today's will come out in tomorrow's diaper ...

LOL! I hope not! Well, yesterday's was still in his hair, so there goes that theory...

greentiger

Mon, May 04 2009, 3:44 pm

-Could he have stuffed it in?
-or maybe one of the other kids did that?
Or maybe he put it down his shirt (my daughter does that all the time), and it got stuck there till you opened his diaper and it slid in.

ss321

Mon, May 04 2009, 4:20 pm

theory 1 is pretty unlikely (just the timeframe. not the fact htat kids swallow stuff. that they do)
theory 3 - are you that tzefoloigen? IDK if this is what happened, I guess it would be more or less probable depending on your personality.

theory 2= my best guess. kids put stuff down their shirts, or he was playing around and it fell, or he was holding it and then stuck his hand into his diaper to itch his tush....etc.

↑ mandksima ↓

Tue, May 05 2009, 2:40 am

Okay, here's the twist I forgot to mention - he was wearing a onesie undershirt with snaps at the crotch so the only time he could have stuck it into his diaper was the split second while I was changing him and how could I not have seen that?!!

Ima'la

Tue, May 05 2009, 2:48 am

Probably fell out of his hair and down the back of his onesie...and in.

I used to find pebbles from the park in my kids diapers. I thought they had swallowed them when I wasn't looking, but after a while, I realized they were just creeping into the clothing and then into the diaper.

↑ mandksima

Sun, Jun 14 2009, 6:58 am

bnm wrote:

I found my daughter's missing earing and post in her dirty diaper.

That is pretty scary as it has such a sharp point! I really hope they just found their way into her diaper rather than through her digestive track!