If you ever hear your children yelling thirty minutes after bedtime and upon checking out the situation find your toddler looking like this, know that there is a solution.
First, do a quick clean up job (meaning wipe desitin off the face, dresser, blanket, laundry basket, sister's face, and door).
Second, send guilty toddler directly to bed upon realizing that desitin in hair is not an easy clean up job.
Third, the next morning wash toddler's hair with dish soap (like Dawn) to get the greasy desitin to come out of hair. Then rewash the hair with shampoo and conditioner. The dish soap works great to get the greasy ointment out of the hair.
Fourth, hide the desitin very high out of reach of toddler. Note: Hiding desitin in back of sock drawer does not constitute a good hiding place.
When I figure out how to get the desitin out of the carpet, I'll share that tip on here as well. I'm still working on that one.
That same thing happened to my friend right before we showed up at her house for Thanksgiving dinner last November. I will ask her how they got it out of their carpet. Spencer sure is a cute little mischief-maker though.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh. . . that is so funny! I think my favorite part is when you sent him to bed with desitin in his hair. HA!!!
ReplyDeleteLove this! Next time my roommate gets desitin in her hair, I'm so going to know what to do! :) In all seriousness, I'm sure you're not alone in this. Good luck with the carpet!
ReplyDeleteAwful! OK, S wins the prize for naughtiest but cutest two year old on the planet.
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