Changing time

Ava got a doll for Christmas from her Uncle Tom that drinks and wets herself. Not wanting to have to change two sets of diapers, we haven't clued Ava into the capabilities of this mini, micturating wonder. However, Ava seems to intuitively know that this is not an ordinary doll. For one, she has a hole in her crotch that all of the other dolls don't have. For two, she wears diapers. If she wears diapers she must need changing, right? This doll was still on her FIRST diaper. That one was sure to be a doosie.



Ava laid the doll on her recliner and brought over a box of Kleenex. She kept saying, "woo wee," as if the doll had really let one go. Pulling back the adhesive strips on the diaper, Ava started wiping... and wiping.... and wiping. She would get a Kleenex, shuffle it about in the doll's crotch, and stuff it back in the Kleenex box. Ava is NOT one to waste. Her parents, however, are more wasteful in that they DO NOT reuse wipes. May the Lord have mercy on their souls. Since all of the "wipes" were reused, we didn't stop her from cycling through the entire box of Kleenex and shoving them back in. Unfortunately, now a Kleenex will not pop up after the previous one is pulled. Let's just hope we don't have a nose-blowing emergency.

The likelihood of such an emergency is pretty high considering Ava has a runny nose and she's already passed it on to her dad. There are few things more entertaining to watch than Ava when she needs her nose wiped. She does NOT like it. She will open her mouth, raise her chin, and pull her upper lip tight over her upper jaw. I can't decide if she looks more like Cindy Lou Who or The Grinch. She'll stay like this, looking and sounding desperate, hoping that the leakage won't find its way into her open mouth, until we come to the rescue with a life-saving nose wipe. I'll admit, we don't always get there before she gets a taste of the mucoid mess.