doody balls

This is a photo of the spot where the "incident" took place.

My daughter has been asking to go to Grandpa's house to go swimming for several days now. With my husband at work all day and evening today, I gave Dad a call to see if he wanted some company. Yippee! He's home and we are set to meet for lunch and a swim. Lunch was great (grilled cheese sandwiches) and my daughter AND my 7 month old son had a great time in the pool. As we are all eating our drumstick icecream cones the phone rings. It's Grandma. She wants to see us (and the new car). We decide to stay for dinner. She arrives about 5pm and the kids are starting to get cranky from their fun day with no nap. We sit down to eat and my daughter eats all of her pasta wheels and sauce. We are all still eating when she jumps up from the table and annouces that she's done. Her brother is sitting in the play area (pictured above) chewing on a piece of the play mat. We begin to attempt having an adult conversation now that my daughter has stopped asking us to tell her the story of Goldie Locks and the Three Bears while she eats. Something catches my eye and I turn toward the play area to see that my daughter has pulled her skirt off and is starting to pull down her pull-ups. "Honey, we don't pull down our pull-ups in the..." Just then she pulls them down and kicks them toward her brother. I leap from the table and the whole thing seems to play out in slow motion. As her diaper is flying across the room, so are little brown balls of doody. Across the playmat, over her brother's head, under the coffee table. I grab a paper towel and go doody hunting. I am pretty sure I have all the smelly pellets and put them in a plastic bag. Then I put the diaper in the bag and reach for her skirt. As I lift it up a huge doody ball falls out of it with a thump. I screamed and reached back in the bag for the paper towel to pick it up with. I made my way back to the table to finish my meal. My parents didn't quite no what to say. My Dad took bite of his meatball and said, "That didn't ruin my appetite."