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It's a nice day in Fort Collins @ 73F. wind @ 16mph.

Little RyanC had just gotten a quick shower so he smelled fresh. We then started our daily routine of emailing/web surfing while he played in the study area. Usually he happily plays with anything he can find at ground level and then he will want to play with whatever is on top of our desk.

Today the boy stuck to his routine. He got bored with moving daddy's cases around the room and then decided that mommy/daddy has more fun at the shared desk. So he came in between our chairs and started reaching for the desk. He touched the desk but then stepped back for some reason. That should have been a sign but we continued on with our routine...

We then heard deep-bass-sounding gas exits coming from the boy's direction - and that should have been another sign...

But... mommy and daddy decided to have fun discussing whose turn it was to change poopy diaper for the little boy. I had insisted it was mommy's turn since I had just changed the diaper but mommy clarifies that it's daddy's job to change ugly-sounding possibilties. The little boy saw an opportunity to grab the edge of the desk -- not sure if he was going for the mouse pad or the mouse. All of the sudden, he slips and falls onto the floor on his butt.

He was only whining a little so we thought he was fine... and he was. Then we looked for water on the mat since the last time he slipped, it was because he had spilled some water. That was when we noticed the yellowish goo/liquid all over the plastic floor-mat. This time it couldn't have been more obvious.

The boy had overflowed his diaper with some serious diarrhea!

Mommy then told daddy to pick up the boy right away to the bathroom for another quick shower. I got ready to take the responsibility for the diaper-change screwup possibility and then was relieved to see that wasn't it.

He really overfilled the diaper.

So, as we were finishing up cleaning the boy, mommy casually turns to me and said "why don't you go clean up the floor while I dress him?" Being as slow as I am, I didn't think fast enough to volunteer for putting new clothes on him first. Off to the study I went...

I was lucky the overflow occurred while boy was standing on our plastic office-mat. It was also good that the weather's nice so we can open our window to air-out without freezing. It's time to get out of the house for some fresh air.