Mess of the Week: The Midnight Snack Edition

Thursday morning we woke to Sarah yelling, “I THINK NOAH’S BEEN EATING SOMETHING! HE’S GOT BROWN STUFF ALL OVER HIS FACE!” My first thought, being roused out of a deep, deep slumber was actually, oh no, you don’t suppose a diaper has gone really bad????

But it turned out that it was indeed food. When I saw my son sitting up in bed, his face smeared with brown mystery goop that had dried, his cheeks, chin, forehead, everything covered in brown except for his very runny nose, I wasn’t terribly surprised to find an empty box of Baker’s Chocolate right next to him on his sheets. A large box of bakers chocolate that had been previously unopened the night before. Nor was I surprised to find the childproof lock in disrepair downstairs next to the food cupboard.

When Dr. Peds asked him exactly when he got the chocolate, he replied, “Oh, sometime in the night but it was almost morning. I was hungry.” He has this nasty habit of waking up hungry at 4:00 a.m. Usually he begs for breakfast and then crawls into my bed with me when I don’t rise up to make oatmeal. I guess on Thursday he decided to take things into his own hands. And he was quite distressed to be caught amid such incriminating evidence. Did I mention that the bedsheets were smeared in chocolate too?

I figured that one of the consequences should be a mandatory photo session. It was effective. He was quite distressed, and in the following photograph is trying to hide behind his bookcase.