March 18 - A Stupid Mommy with Good Intentions...

So, today was an ok day. Work went by pretty quickly and then I was out the door to get Alaina. She was in a great mood when I got there because she ate FOUR bottles again today. Time to start the cereal twice a day! Since she was so happy, I decided we would just run straight to Toys R Us and Babies R Us. We needed to pick up a birthday present for Mr. Aiden Hunderdosse! ;o) And, we needed a few more things too. At Babies R Us I picked up a baby food organizer. Basically, a glorified lazy susan for baby food, but, I think it will help with the organizing! We also got some cereal to take to daycare and a few other small items including, some cool new teething rings. I don't think the teeth are quite here yet but she likes to chew on the coolness of the teething ring anyway and we only have a couple. So, I got one that looks like keys and one that had Winnie the Pooh characters on it. So, by this time, Alaina is getting sleepy and I decide to head out. So we get home and I start to unpack our purchases. I put Alaina's name on her cereal and grab some bibs out of the drawer to put in the diaper bag for day care. Take out the baby food organizer and put it together and then I get to the teething rings. I took the little tags off of them and opened them up and decided I better clean them before giving them to my baby to put in her mouth. *Note: This is the mommy with good intentions part. The stupid mommy part is coming. So, I decide the best way to clean them is to SANITIZE them. Seems like a great idea. So I plop them in the microwave sanitizer and set the time and walk away. I know that you know what happened by now. I am in the future now also! So I open up the sanitizer and it is a gel-melted-ooey-gooey MESS in my sanitizer. APPARENTLY, teething rings should not be warmed up a.k.a. "cooked." Only, Frozen. Yeah, that's right. That train only goes one way down the track people. Ugh. RUINED RUINED RUINED brand new teething rings. Of course, Teddy is mad, although Mr. Enginerd wasn't jumping in STOPPING me from throwing them in the sanitizer! Ugh! So yeah...it isn't like it was expensive. It was maybe $10.00 in teething rings. And they can be replaced, but, now I know. You live and you learn, right? Especially as a first time parent. Next time I know to READ THE PACKAGING before just tossing it in the sanitizer. So, here are the keys...
You can see the huge plastic bubble on the blue key where the plastic bubbled up and let the gel spew out. All the keys are stuck together now. And, the gel was all over the place. That was FUN to clean up. Thankfully, we know it melts when it gets hot so when it started getting hard, I just stuck it BACK in the microwave. So...couldn't let Lainey chew on those! In the trash they went. Another day, another lesson learned. Thank you life! :o)