I think my mommy license might be revoked...

I will start out with that Sophie is fine! She is happy, healthy and there have been no adverse side effects from my ineptitude. So my dog Monti takes pills because he's old and has a little heart murmur. Last night while giving him his pill (I was really tired) I dropped the whole bottle all over the kitchen.

BJ came and we scoured the kitchen and dinning room to make sure we got every last pill. I had just moved my Tupperware to a lower cupboard near the entrance to the kitchen so Sophie could play while I was cooking and we knew if she found a pill she'd eat it.

So this morning I was making french toast for her for breakfast and she crawled into the kitchen, opened her cupboard and started banging around. I didn't think anything of it till she got a little quiet, at which point I realized there was something in her mouth!

Aside from freaking out, I shoved my finger in her mouth in time to remove one of Monti's pills, just beginning to dissolve. I wanted to die.

I washed her mouth out, gave her something to drink then grabbed the phone and googled poison control. The lady was super nice (my phone gave me the Wisconsin poison control so of course she was nice : ) Thankfully Monti's medication is a diuretic, and because he's under 10 lbs, his dosage is really small. The lady told me that diuretics aren't considered poisonous, and that given the dose and the fact that I removed it so quickly there would likely be no side effects. If any of it got into her system then she might have a few more wet diapers then normal but as long as she she didn't show any signs of weakness (she didn't) she would be fine.

She was!

Like I good parent I called BJ to tell him what had happened and what poison control said, then we tried to brain storm about where she would have found a pill. He suggested that maybe it had gotten into her cupboard (our cupboard doors don't close well). It was the only place we didn't look (didn't even think to look). Well sure enough I opened the cupboard door and sitting there next to Sophie's Tupperware bowls was another pill!

I quickly cleaned out the whole cabinet to make sure there weren't any more pills. There were none (thank God)

BJ called me later in the afternoon to check to make sure she didn't have any reaction (she didn't) and me to make sure I was okay (still not happy with myself). He had told a few of the people he worked with what had happened and wanted me to know that everyone of the people in his office that have kids had some kind of similar story. One guys kid had eaten ant traps (turns out they are 99% peanut butter), another's child drank some children's Tylenol.

SO apparently its not uncommon for kids to find the one thing you really don't want them to find (and then eat it). Apparently no one will be calling child protective services on me, but I have to say it still sucks.

I don't believe in guilt (its a waste of energy...learn and move on) so I won't be beating myself up for too long about this, but you can bet that next time I drop something that could be potentially lethal to my daughter I will look even in the places it couldn't possibly be to make sure she doesn't get to it. I'd love to never have to call poison control again.

(She does totally love playing in the cabinet)