8 Messes Made by Toddlers That Make Mommy Want a Drink

by Adriana Velez May 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM

toddler paint I get misty-eyed sometimes when I go through pictures of my son when he was just a toddler. Those sweet chubby cheeks, that feathery hair, his little ways. But there is one thing I have absolutely no nostalgia for: The messes. We had some gigantic toy disasters, especially after play dates. But as parents of young devils know, the messes can get a lot deeper than that. And a lot harder to clean up.

Take a walk down memory lane as we recall some of the worst toddler-made disasters in our lives.

That time she poured baby powder all over everything. That time he got into your glitter. The toilet paper bonanza of 2009. Or that fateful day when you thought it might be fun to paint together. Ha! It was not. SIGH. Aren't you glad you didn't have to clean up these messes?

Toddler Scenes of Disaster

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wirehangers

May 6, 2012 at 8:51 PM

I was a teen in the 80's and bought a lot of cassette tapes(remember those)and in 1994 when my daughter was one she crawled under my bed,pulled out the box,and in about one minute pulled out a mile of tape.Even my Duran Duran! I thanked her years later and told her she had helped me move into the 90's.When my younger daughter was 3 she came in from the yard cuddling a stuffed animal.She was hugging it and rubbing her face on it.As she got closer I noticed it was a dead squirrel and she would not let go.I managed to pry it from her hands after a struggle and dropped it on the livingroom floor.I went into drama queen mode,grabbed my kids,and ran off to my sister's house.My husband came home after work to an empty house with the door wide open and a dead squirrel on the floor.He could not even begin to guess what happened.Oopsie,LOL.Now my daughter is 15 and when one of our dogs brought in a dead mouse,she cleaned it up for me.

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Nonmember comment from Emma

May 22, 2012 at 6:13 PM

One time my son woke up from his nap in his bedroom and found a black sharpie marker (I don't know why it was there. He probably found it on my husband's desk and took it to his room sometime before his nap). He colored all over his hands and his dresser....Another time I opened his bedroom door and found him naked. He was covered in poop. It was also on the carpet and one of the walls. To make things worse, he had pulled EVERY piece of clothing out of his dresser and left them on the floor. I ended up washing all of his clothes (and putting drawer locks on his dresser). Another time he was in his high hair eating cereal. My husband left the room. I walked into the kitchen and found half the room covered in milk and cereal.

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Facebook comment from Naida Marie

July 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM

My son dumped a whole can of wood stain. Thankfully it was in the garage on a plain concrete floor. Uhh

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