Andrea’s Weblog

Over the holidays Grandi Mac, Elizabeth and I set out on a shopping
expedition. I think we waited a bit too long for Elizabeth’s liking
to decide to go eat some lunch. We ended up at Mellow Mushroom, a sit-
down pizza place in downtown Augusta. The waiter brought Elizabeth a
cup of water with a lid on it, which she promptly pried off, but
continued to play with–that is until she spilled it all over the
floor. They promptly mopped it up and put up a wet floor sign. I took
Elizabeth’s cold, wet pants off and left her in her cloth diaper.

The meal seemed to deteriorate from there. Elizabeth was fussy and
when she found entertainment in sitting under the high chair I let
her do her thing. The next thing I know she’s squatting down in the
middle of the floor and a pool of pee is forming underneath her (much
to the amusement of the other diners who noticed). Fortunately, each
table has napkin dispensers, so I was able to take a stack of them
and cover up the puddle. She must have looked up and seen that the
sign said “wet floor” and taken it as a order.

At this point we hadn’t yet gotten our food. I looked to Grandi Mac
and said, “do you think we can get it to go?” I had no diapers on me
since her diaper was less than a half hour old and I had felt a
solid mass in her diaper and was afraid it would roll out at any
moment and cause further embarrassment.

I dashed to the car and did a diaper change while Grandi Mac got our
lunch packed up. As soon as the car started rolling she fell fast
asleep. I ate my lunch in the car, sitting in the garage at our house
while she continued to sleep blissfully unaware of how embarrassing
toddlers can be.