Hidden treasures...

Our two-year-old daughter was playing in our bedroom yesterday. She has quite an imagination, so you never know what she is going to say next. So, I wasn't too shocked when I heard her call out, smiling, "look daddy, poopy." Thinking she was either pretending or teasing, I asked her to bring it to me. She walked over with a rather large, dark, round object glistening in her hand. It was evenly formed into a perfect circle, so I thought there was no way it really could have been human waste.

"See, it's poop," she said, "it's gross." She handed me the solid, dense object. I was relatively sure it was a leftover chocolate Easter Egg. Until I smelled it. Definitely poop! And now I was holding it in my hand. Now that I had it up close, I realized I was mistaken--it wasn't a perfect, round circle--there were actually several miniature "rocks" on the top side of it--maybe 10 of them. But they were also very small and evenly formed. This thing was definitely a thing of art!

She laughed and laughed as I flushed it down the toilet and chased after her so that I could wash her hands a few dozen times with antibacterial soap. After cleaning up, I asked her to show me where she found it. She walked over to my bed, lifted up edge of the comforter that hung down the side, just touching the floor, and pointed beneath my bed. "Right there", she said, pointing under my side of the bed. "Silly poopy hiding under daddy's bed."

Don't ask me how long it had been there or how she found it. I am just glad she didn't eat it (it really did look delicious before I knew what it was for sure). On the bright side--at least maybe we know why we've all been getting sick a lot lately!