You so KRAZY!

Hey, you know what you never want to see? Your kid upset and an open container of this on the floor where she was playing:
That's right, Lilah came into the kitchen, sippy cup in hand, crying that her tongue was stuck. I didn't understand what she was talking about, so I told her to let me see and that was when I noticed the odor. Kind of a fruity, sickeningly sweet, "gotta be toxic because it smells like wrong candy" smell. I started to panic. "What did you eat? Show Mommy what you put in your mouth!" and so she ran to the living room where I found saw the open container of Krazy Glue - THAT'S RIGHT, KRAZY GLUE! - on the floor next to some stuff she was playing with.



First I asked her where she had the glue. She said "Mouf. Hands. Wash hands. Dirty." So I told her to open her mouth and stick out her tongue and hold her fingers apart and not to touch anything.

And she did. So please just stop and think about that picture for just a second, because in retrospect, it was very sitcom-ish and cute, because she's small and I really couldn't believe at the time she was doing such a good job following instructions.

I saw on the container to rinse the mouth with water, but she had already had juice trying to wash it out of her mouth. So then I freaked out because she had swallowed it. So then I called poison control. All the while, she was standing there, mouth open, tongue out, fingers spread.

Poison control assured me that as long as nothing was stuck together, she was ok. She might vomit later depending on how much she had, but it is not as dangerous because of toxicity as it is because of kids getting their eyes stuck shut, or their fingers stuck together.

So as my panic over surely allowing my child to ingest poison as I put dishes in the dishwasher subsided, I tried to ask Lilah what happened. Well, earlier she had brought me her Tinker Bell costume wings and wanted to wear them. I told her that I would have to fix them this weekend because right now, they wouldn't stick to her shirt.

So when I asked her why she used to glue, she pointed to her wings in the floor. Where I had found the glue. I said, "What were you going to do?" and she said, "Glue wings. Back." And pointed to her back.

o.O

So how did she know? The only thing I can figure is that yesterday, she was with me as I bought the glue and watched me use the glue to fix a Tinker Bell doll's broken wing, so she figured that would be the best way to fix her wings, too.

And how did she get the Krazy Glue to start with?

She's just taller than I thought. It was on a table and a) Didn't know she could reach it and b) Didn't know she'd want to reach it.

Lesson Learned.