When he was in the younger infants room, they would take the babies outside almost every day, but I think they would be playing on a blanket or in an exersaucer or something. He would come home looking almost exactly the same as he did when I dropped him off. Okay, maybe he'd have a clump of dried rice cereal in his hair, but nothing major.
Almost instantly upon being switched into the older infant room, Owen started coming home looking like a homeless baby. This is the anatomy of a homeless baby's outfit (I should also mention that when I picked him up this day, he had dirt all over his face because he had been trying to eat it).
This is a cute outfit we got as a gift. It was cute in the morning, anyhow. Here is what it looked like when I picked Owen up:
Exhibit 1. Some strange food stain. They do use bibs at daycare, but bibs are not foolproof.
Exhibit 2. Some other strange food stain plus a spot of barf. The barf actually happened on my watch. On the way home we needed to make a stop. When I was paying, I sat Owen up on the counter (I was holding him, obviously. I don't need no parenting classes!). He proceeded to barf all over himself, my arm, and the counter at the store.
Exhibit 3. The mysterious black knees and ankles. I really do not know what causes this, to be perfectly honest. I think it is the surface they have outside in their play area. It is like rubber gravel, if that makes any sense. I assume thats what these stains are from.
This mysterious black stain is the biggie. I can never get this out. Here's another pair of pants, part of a cute outfit:
These pants have been through the wash no less than FIVE TIMES. They have been treated with Shout, with OxyClean, with detergent, with a combination of these three, etc. This is the best I have been able to do.
@#%$!
5 comments:
Man! I would be pissed! Did you talk to his daycare about it? I mean really, those stains seem a little extreme.
I'm actually thrilled when my kids come home filthy. The dirt stains means that he is having fun, exploring, probably eating some dirt, too. Last week when I took her clothes off at bathtime I was welcomed by a completely blue belly...she decided to paint herself..self expression.
You can have a clean infant, but do you really want a clean toddler? Hit the second hand stores for some "play clothes" and leave the nice ones at home.
We have two sets of clothes - cheap daycare clothes and weekend clothes. Jax only wears the nice stuff when we're going somewhere where he needs to look presentable and I will be there to monitor him and immediately clean up after him.
I see very dark blue jeans in the Bug's future... Or maybe you should start making him trousers out of trash bags... :) Man, I hate the phantom stains - did you try Zout? My mom swears by it, for what that's worth, since she doesn't spend a lot of time in the play "gravel."
Zout is a good idea, that stuff gets out anything! I'll try it. I did just buy all of Owen's next size up clothing, and all the pants are dark :) I have learned my lesson!
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