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Sometime’s life’s messiest moments are ones that you would never expect if you didn’t have a kid. I had thought my life was messy before, but boy was I wrong. The moment my son was born everything changed. My life’s messiest moments now come in the form of my infant. The first messy moment that I came across was when my son was one month old and we had his very first blow-out.
Oh. My. God. I thought that blow-out was going to be the end of me. My sister and I could have made everyone laugh. We were a train-wreck and were laughing the entire time. I was wrong though; those early months are the easy ones. Yes, blow-outs are scary, but I have found that meal time and craft time can be so much worse!
Meal Time: Life’s Messiest Moments
My lovely, little man, has started attempting to self feed and I swear I need to get myself a lab coat to wear when he is eating!! Like seriously… Oh. My. God. Food gets everywhere, but at least he is having a good time and is learning while he does it. As you can see he does manage to get food into his mouth, but a majority of the food that is in his bowl ends up all over the kitchen. Believe me when I say you did not want to see the floor!! There were green beans and cereal EVERYWHERE. I could not move without stepping on some of his food.
One thing I can say is that I am thankful to have Dreft in my life because without Dreft I would never be able to get his clothes and bibs clean after one of these messy moments in our life. Dreft manages to clean his clothes and leave them smelling great even after a messy diaper or old spoiled food is crusted on his clothing. I have followed Dr. Dyan Hes’ advice and am well stocked up on bibs because I know they need to be utilized for more than just meal time. In one day Raiden can easily go through four bibs due to meal time and eating teething crackers. I use them because I find them to be a bit easier to clean a couple bibs than to clean multiple outfits a day.
Cleaning up Life’s Messiest Moments!
Even though life can get messy we have learned that one of the best things about getting messy is clean up time. While much of clean up time can be annoying (like washing the floor and his highchair), it also means bath time which is a fun little treat for my man. He (finally) loves bath time. It may have taken six months, but Raiden loves when we get down and play in the bath tub! I have always thought that bath time is a great way to embrace Raiden’s messy side and was pleased to see that Dr. Dyan Hes has included bath time as being one of her “messy baby” tips. She says that it is a great way to splash and have fun while cleaning up from baby’s messes.
Cleaning up Raiden is now a fun exploration and no longer a chore. I used to dread bath time because it meant a bright red infant screaming at the top of his lungs. I also used to dread the stains that come from a baby’s daily life. I will admit that when the weather was nice I used to leave him in just a diaper. I claimed I did it because it was easier, but that isn’t the truth. I was honestly terrified of the messes that my son would make in his clothes. It didn’t matter if they were new or second-hand clothes, I was still terrified of cleaning those messes up. I made the change to Dreft and was able to let out a sigh of relief.
Their products are formulated to be hypoallergenic, gentle on skin, tough on stains, and with a fresh baby scent that everyone knows and they work REALLY well. I love that I can add a scent booster to the wash because sometimes even after one wash those funky baby smells just don’t go away.
I am thankful for their detergent because most of the time I do not need to treat my little man’s clothes with a concoction of stain removers. They boast that Dreft removes 99% of stains and I would have to agree with this sentiment. Right now you can be proud of your messiest moments because Dreft is hosting a fun little contest.
Dreft’s America’s Messiest Baby Contest is one that you won’t want to miss if you have a little one in your life. I know that every child gets messy so why not capture it on film and enter it in this contest? The submission deadline is November 30, 2016. Parents can enter by submitting their favorite messy baby moment at parents.com/dreftmessiestbabycontest or by posting their favorite messy baby photo to Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #messiestbabycontest.
Dreft #MessiestBabyContest Twitter Party
In addition to the contest that Dreft is hosting there is also a Dreft #MessiestBabyContest Twitter Party that is being held on Monday, November 14th from 9PM-10Pm EST. Make sure that you RSVP so that you can participate and be in the running to win many prizes including an iRobot Roomba!
My Messiest Moments Giveaway
Finally I am hosting a very simple giveaway to one reader! The rules are simple; all I ask of you is to have you comment about one of Life’s Messiest Moments. Please leave a detailed comment because I want to hear all of the messy details!! Make sure that when you leave a comment you enter in an email address that you check often because that is how I will be contacting you to let you know that you have won! You will have until November 17th, 2016 at 11:59 PM CST to enter to win this great prize pack. Now, you might be wondering what the prize is!! Well, let me tell you…
One winner will win a $50 AMEX gift card and dreft product.
Ashley
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One of my messiest moments with my grandson was with his 1st birthday smash cake. He had blue frosting and cake everywhere. Thanks for the giveaway.
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One of my kids’ messiest moments was playing with flour and ingredients while I was busy in baking. They got creative for making their own version of birthday cake with fruit and flour.
When my son was little I remember one day I was in the kitchen preparing lunch for him. He mustve been between 2 and 3. I was only out of the room a few minutes and left him coloring and watching a Disney video. When I walked back into the room he had found a rubber stamper that is self inking and stamped it all over his face, his body and his clothing. I have the picture somewhere. That had to be the messiest and funniest moment.
My son thought it would be funny and I guess delicious to eat the dirt out of one of my potted plants!! Oh My what a mess! All I could do was laugh, and look at him with that big grin on his face like he hit the jackpot! Potting soil everywhere!!! On him, his face, mouth, floor…oh my what a moment!! lol
I had baked some cupcakes for dessert and I left them on the kitchen table not thinking my. 2 year old daughter would wait until I left the room for 1 minute. Climb the chair got a cupcake to eat, which the icing ended up all over her face, hair and clothes. I forgot to mention she went into her bedroom to do this.
I’ve had some pretty interesting messy moments one includes my son and a brand new bottle of Wen ….but the absolute messiest moment was one day my kids were painting while I was cleaning. They loved to paint it would keep them busy for hours…my daughter was about 11 and sons were 7 and 1….so my daughter is a little trouble maker she loved to do things to her brothers…never really bad just ….messy and silly….she calls me in the kitchen …and said she had a surprise for me,I go in and my boys were completely covered in blue paint from head to toe! And so was she…she said they were avatars…the boys were rolling around on my white kitchen floor…they touched walls …getting them to the bathroom was unspeakable! My kitchen ,hallway,rug,,,bathtub,,,,bathroom floor,walls …everything on half my house was blue!!! Even the water in tub was blue…it took about 4 baths to clean them..and hours to clean the house!! Had to shampoo the carpets!! It was hilarious …and messy!! I don’t think I ever laughed so hard..they tell me mommy u always say the bigger the mess we make means the more fun we had! U can’t get mad at us for having fun! And they’re right I just couldn’t get mad haha oh boy that was something!!
My messiest moment was when my 3 year old put dish liquid in the dish washer and turned it on.
When of my messiest moments was when my daughter was two. We were having a Fourth of July celebration at my parents’ house. All the women were in the kitchen cleaning up from dinner. Since I was helping, I took my eyes off my daughter for a few minutes. When I checked on her, she had pulled up a chair to the dessert table. She had a huge serving spoon in her hand and was eating chocolate pudding from a big bowl. She was covered…face and clothes…in chocolate pudding. It did make for some fun photos though.
One of our messiest moment was just this week when she got her 1st birthday cake and boy was she a mess. She had purple icing from head to toe in her white shirt!
My messiest moment was when my husband decided it was a good idea
to let our 2 year old son help him change his oil.
Our messiest moment was when I brought my very tiny premature son home from the hospital many years ago. I could not get a diaper to fit him. So the first day everything came out of diaper all over the place.
One of my life’s messiest moments happened most recently. I sometimes forget that kids are sponges and watch every single thing you do. I was spot cleaning our living room rug with some vinegar and baking soda. After applying the products, I set them on the kitchen counter (way too close to the edge I now realize). I went to the bathroom and came back to finish scrubbing the spot only to find my 4 year old and 20 month old covered in baking soda (or snow as my 4 year old called it). It was EVERYWHERE.. the rug, the couches and even the dog caught a bit of it. I said a little prayer and after about 30 minutes, things were clean again. I have learned to make sure things are WAY out of reach of the Little’s!
One of our messiest moments was when my little two found a huge container of baby powder, and Vaseline. I was laying down with a migraine, and they were very quiet. FInally, I got up, and there was powder everywhere! They had painted each other with Vaseline , and their hair was sticking up in spikes. All the powder was all over them as well. It took forever to clean the room, and to get the Vaseline out of their hair!
One of life’s messiest moments that will always be a fond memory is when my son was younger he loved peanut butter and we gave him a peanut butter sandwich in his high chair and he opened the bread up and smeared the peanut butter all over his fave and even smeared it all over his hair it was quite a mess but it was so cute and funny.
Oh I have to say my favorite messy moment was his 1st birthday! Grandma so kindly brought the small individual 1st birthday cake just for him……with bright royal blue frosting! Oh my goodness…at first I thought it was great…he didnt want to dig in to much…but then…oh boy…he really dug in! It was all over…I had such a hard time getting it out of everything! He even had some royal blue streaks in his hair for the next week! 🙂 Messy…but precious!
My daughter formally hit the terrible twos about six months early! This kid was into any and everything. The messiest moment tho came one Saturday morning. I worked weekdays and although I was awake I had chosen to lay in bed and watch TV. I had no idea that she had shimmied down the side of her bed and made her way to the kitchen. There were several items she could have chosen. Flour, sugar and even cooking oil. But noooo, she chose Hershey’s chocolate syrup! She attempted to put it in a cup and when that failed she realized how much fun it would be just to squirt it in the floor. Again, I am awake only two rooms away and she was so quiet I did not hear her. I have no idea how long she “played” but by the time she got tired and was ready to move onto something else she had it in her hair, in her ears, in her belly button and even in her diaper. It was bad enough that I now had this outrageous mess but at that time we were plagued with “sugar” ants. By the time I got her in the tub and cleaned up the ants had shown up for the spectacle. Needless to say, Hershey’s syrup was kept in a higher cabinet after that! dmatthews38751@yahoo.com
Well my kids are big now and have kids of their own. So thinking back I think that the messiest was when I was staying with my sister. She had twins that were 3 and I had a 2 year old at the time. They all got up early and did not wake anyone else in the house,when we got up they were making a cake in the middle of the kitchen! They had sugar flour eggs and even milk~that was quite the mess and I still remember it after all these years..LOL
One of life’s messiest moments happened at dinner time when my little girl decided to take a hand full of mashed potatoes off of her dinner plate and rubbed it into her hair. She laughed and laughed. She thought that was so funny because I opened my mouth really wide and said, what are you doing? I will never forget that night. It took so long to get those mashed potatoes out of her pretty hair.
Our messiest moments are usually pasta night. I made the mistake of shower my older granddaughter how to check if pasta is done by throwing a piece against the cabinet. My 4 yr old grandson threw all of his with sauce on it on the cabinet. What a mess!
My messiest moment might have just happened, I was making a pumpkin cheesecake, just washed my hands and I picked up the hand mixer, without drying my hands… Well… the mixer slipped and pumpkin cheesecake just sprayed all over the kitchen! It’s extra disastrous because I’m in the process of moving and people keep coming to see my apartment. oy!
One of my messiest moments was when my three oldest daughters were 3 and two years old got into the refrigerator when I was asleep! I woke up to the kitchen smelling good! Not really though considering they had spilled ketchup, milk, yogurt, cookies all over the floor and was playing in it! I couldn’t be mad at them though all I could do was hurry up and clean it up because my 12 month old daughter was trying to get in it!
ONE OF OUR MESSIEST MOMENTS WAS WHILE MAKING RED VELVET CAKE. I WAS USING A HAND MIXER AND MY NIECE WAS HELPING. SHE GOT AHOLD OF IT AND TURN IT UP TO 5. BATTER WENT ALL OVER THE SINK HAHA.
The worst mess moment for me was when my daughter was just a few days old. We realized quickly that the formula didn’t agree with her. I got a horrible surprise one morning going into her room when there was just as much brown as there was baby. I went and grabbed another blanket and wrapped her up and immediately ran a bath. Got her cleaned up and then ran everything in the laundry. It was worse when it happened again when she was about 2 and we had to learn other foods that wouldn’t agree with her. But by then everything is a toy and the wall behind the crib got in on the fun. I do not miss those days….
Spaghetti- It’s amazing what spaghetti can do. We went through spaghetti stains with our kids now we are on to the grandkids!
My 1 year old is very messy when she eats her dinner.
We had a messy evening a few years ago. My youngest grandson loves eating spaghetti and we have it quite often. He is the messiest spaghetti eater even though he has a fork to use, he still somehow manages to use his hands and gets sauce all over the place. Half of it ends up dribbled down his shirt and onto the floor. Well our dog loves when that happens so she can lick it all up. Our elderly dog had an upset stomach that day and I guess ate too much off the floor because she ended up puking a huge pile underneath my grandson’s feet when he was still sitting at the table. It was such a pain to clean up and reach up under the table.
One of life’s messiest moments with both of my babies was the first time they both had spaghetti! It is both of their favorite meals and lets just say they both felt the dog needed some so the floor got alot on it as did their hair.
anytime we do crafts it always ends up super messy. the last time we painted my daughter got paint all over herself and all over the bath room. there was paint on the bathroom stool, sink, and towels.
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My son got a hold of a black marker and proceeded to decorate his face.
My messy moment was when my daughter had spaghetti for the first time. Sure it was cute, but she had spaghetti noodles and sauce everywhere. In her hair, on her nice clean clothes and yes even in her diaper. That was a while ago and I don’t think I got all the stains out of her clothes. I learned from that experience. She never ate spaghetti in her clothes again. She wore a nice big bib and a diaper after that.
One of my meesiest moments ever was when my olderst two devided to bake a cake and instead it ended up a free for all in my kitchen. Picture a dozen eggs and 5 pounds of flour dripping over their little heads, in their eye lashes, up their noses….liberally dusted with flour. They also dyed the puppy purple and torquoise with paste icing color. Fun times. Of course this was long enough ago that i can laugh about it, but back then, all i could do was sit down in the middle of the mess and cry!
One day, I left a bottle of baby powder on the floor after I changed my 2 year old daughter’s diaper.
Went to throw the diaper away. My daughter runs in her room, thinking she was just playing. 2 min later I see smoke/dust in the hallway. I run down to see her WHOLE room covered in baby powder. The bottle was empty. And there was a mess needless to say!!
One of the messiest moments I can think of is when I was babysitting my niece who was about 15 months old at the time and fed her spaghetti which instead of eating she dumped the bowl over her head and then also threw some of it on the floor and walls. Didn’t serve her that again until she was much older.
Having to clean up an explosive diaper while in a car seat. everything had to be washed. what a mess.
Our messiest moment is when my older son decided to color his little brother from head to toe! Any time they are being to quiet you better go check on them! Lol!
I have photos of my son at barely 2 licking baking bowls. Cake mixes and brownies-he would stay occupied for so long with that bowl and spoon. I even have photos I took of different chocolate hand prints that trailed from the kitchen to his bath-he touched every wall on the way 🙂 erinnsluka@gmail.com
One of my sons messy moments was when he decided that he wanted to “fingerpaint” with his dirty diaper all over the wall, crib, everywhere. After I got it cleaned up and called my mom to tell her what happened she says “welcome to motherhood”. Thanks mom. lol
My baby girl loves spaghetti, but she makes such a mess with it. I make sure we strip her down before letting her go at it. I have to bathe the highchair tray afterwards it’s all over the place. After that, it’s time for her bath, there’s no way she’s going to walk around with spaghetti in her hair haha. I have lots of pics to save as memories.
My messiest moment happened when my son was 5 months old. I had just got through washing my hair and he was ready for a bottle. I fed him and he seemed fine for a little bit, then starting getting fussy. I was trying to make him laugh so I put over my head and made airplane noises. The third time I lifted him – he threw up in my long wet hair. When it happened I just froze, then I brought him down to sit on my lap. He had a big smile on his face. I’m sure he felt a lot better after that – but, me, not so much. I had throw-up all in my wet hair, on my shirt and pants. It took me forever to clean it out of my hair. That is one moment I’ll never forget.
With four kiddo’s I have lots of messy moments, but the latest was my husband letting my toddler put her hands in his birthday cake. It wasn’t a “smash” cake, but it sure turned into one! The mess was pretty bad, but it was so much fun watching her make it and we have lots of cute pictures!
My daughter has pictures of her two older daughters eating their first ice cream cone and couldn’t wait to get a picture of her 11 month old son with his first. The girls got messy but he was a disaster. There was ice cream from head to toe.
As a mom of 4 sons and now grandma of 3; Ive seen my fair shares of messy moments! From spilled milk to finger paints on the walls its never ending! But a memorable messy moment has to be when my grandson turned 1, I was asked to make him a smash cake. Guests were anxiously awaiting the baby to dig into it bit he looked at it in awe. We had to amp him on and next thing you know?? Cake everywhere! But he really enjoyed most of it! I have a pic somewhere on FB. Lol..
One of the messiest moments is when he was sick & poopes everywhere! All over himself, wall, crib. It was the worst!
One of the messiest moments that I’ve had was 2 weeks ago. My picky autistic 2.5 year old son did not want to eat, and he threw his food every where, even on his skill trainer’s face and her white T-shirt. I usually get hard time to feed him and clean up his mess every day!
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One of my messiest moments with my baby so far was when I tried to be a “fun” mom and let her finger paint with her spinach soup. She had so much fun spreading it all over her high chair, clothes, face, me etc. What I didn’t realize was that once the spinach soup dried it was SUPER hard to get off! I have no idea why it was so hard to get off but it took a lot of scrubbing to make things and her presentable again. I swear I found spinach soup on her for her next two baths!
My son’s first birthday, he stuck his hand in the cake, immedately and then shoved it in his mouth. When I went to correct him he wiped it on my blouse. It was SO ADORABLE! one of my best memories
One of my messiest moments is when my daughter was little(2) and I stayed with my sister who had twins(3).They got up early and made a cake in the middle of the kitchen on the floor! They had eggs,cake mix,milk and they were all sitting there stirring it..LOL
I told my granddaughter about how I made mud pies as a child. She wanted to make some, so we made mud pies. lol We had mud all over us. It was great fun, but a big mess. Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful time I had with my granddaughter.
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My messiest moment was when we went out to Cracker barrel and my son who was less than 1 at the time grabbed at my plate and got creamed corn all over his onesie. I did not have a change of clothes for him and had to go to the restroom to wipe it all off and washout the food and dry it !
I turned my back for just a minute—isn’t that how these things happen?—and the water color paints from the craft table, the cookies from the counter, and the juice on the side all ended up on the table…the floor…the counter…the kids…the cat. We moved on from that house years ago, but I’ll bet anyone remodeling even now will find bright purple and green water color smashed cookie pieces in the nooks and crannies. Luckily, kids are easier to clean 🙂
You asked for the details! 😛 My son (now 6 months old) was in his jumparoo, when I looked down at his feet and basically he was painting the hardwood floor with his poop! 😛 nice, huh? It was a mess needless to say… straight into the tub and lots and lots of lysol on the floor! ha!
One of my messiest moments was when I gave my daughter spaghetti for the first time. Oh boy that was messy I had to give her a shower and clean a lot. lol
One of our messiest moments was my youngest stepson. He was 4 and eating spaghetti for lunch before we went to the zoo. By the time he was done, it was all over him… even in his hair. My husband was cleaning him up and asked him “How on earth did you get spaghetti in your hair?!” The kid threw his arms up in the air and said “It’s Magic!!” We all laughed so hard!
One of Life’s Messier Moments is a toddler eating spaghetti.
One time when my son was a newborn he pooped on his dad and his dad had me take over so he could clean up
it was funny but messy at the same time.
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Messiest moment was dropping my glass canister of flour onto the tile floor… shattered glass and flour EVERYWHERE!
One of the messiest moments is when the little one I watch was in his high chair eating spaghetti for lunch. I went to use the restroom and when I reappeared, he had smeared the spaghetti on my white walls, in his hair and all over his clothing then threw the bowl of spahetti at the cupboard doors. Ugh, it was such a mess.
My messiest moment is when I get through serving Lasagna or Spaghetti for dinner and face the aftermath.
One of my messiest moments was when my oldest daughter tried spaghetti for the first time. I put some in her bowl and she grabbed a handful and shoved it in her mouth. When she realized that she really liked it, she started eating it like crazy. I turned around to get a wet towel and turned back (20 seconds later) to find her with the bowl over her face and her licking it out! Spaghetti was in her hair, face, floor, everywhere!
One of my nephew’s messiest moments was trying to make mudpies in the yard. Dirt under tiny nails is hard to get out.
Some of my messiest moments seem to be when I’m watching my niece, especially with spaghetti!
My messiest moments are when the kids eat spaghetti..it even somehow gets in their nostrils!!!
My My messiest moment was when I was potty training my son and I slipped and fell from his poop that had fallen out of his training pants.
One of life’s messiest moments is playtime in the mud.
The first birthday cake for all of my kids was a huge mess!!
One of my son’s messiest moments was when we gave him a few bites of curry at a Thai restaurant. He was about five months old and wearing a cloth diaper and thank goodness we were home right afterwards. I had to shampoo the carpet.
She snuck a chocolate bunny from her Easter basket that was on a table (she was a crafty one!), went behind a chair and came out covered in melted chocolate from head to toe. Getting messy is a big part of her life.
One of my messiest moments was when I served spaghetti to my daughter when she was 18 months. Big mess!
The most recent messiest moment we’ve had was when we were taking care of our newborn nephew! All of our kids and our other nieces are older so there hasn’t been any diaper changing in a while. Lol well when it was time for a diaper change I accidentally let go of his foot and it fell right in his dirty diaper, oh no!! And I guess I did not move fast enough because he started to pee all over lol let’s just say the diaper changing get skill were rusty lol it was a big mess
My messiest moment is when my grandsons were out digging in the yard for dinosaur bones. My one grandson lives with me and my daughter. I watch my other three grandsons a couple days a week. I went in the house and was getting them drinks and a snack when I came out they had poured some of the pool water over the dirt they were digging in. Needless to say they were one big muddy mess. They thought I would get mad when I saw them but I couldn’t help but laugh. I got the hose out and they got a shower.
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My daughter has always loved to paint and do arts and crafts . Very messy cleanups and laundry but so worth it to see her smile.
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My kids have made such messes with spaghetti that one time I pulled a few pieces of pasta from the ceiling. Now we strip down to underwear with a sheet under the children’s chairs. That doesn’t help the ceiling but the rest is fairly easy clean up.
mjg0054@yahoo.com
MY MESSIEST MOMENT WAS WHEN I KEPT THE PANCAKE SYRUP WITHIN REACH OF MY 2 YEAR OLD GRAND DAUGHTER. SHE WAS SO STICKY
Our three year old grandson made quite a good mess a couple of years ago when it was his first birthday. He had a chocolate cake with ice cream so you can just about imagine the big mess that all made.
My child messiest moment was when he we would give him spaghetti and sauce he would have the sauce on his face and body and the noodles would be everywhere on him and the floor too!!!