The Chaos Chronicles: The Life and Times of the Cox Clan: 2 Twinkies, a Gallon of Ice Cream and Poop for $600

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What are all things that Nolan ate over Christmas vacation, Alex?

And, you are $600 richer.

So, I'm sure the twinkies and ice cream were long forgotten when you read the word poop, so I'll save everyone the build-up and just start there....even though that is getting a little ahead of myself.

Nolan has a wonderful new obsession with the bathroom...toilet paper, throwing clothes in the bathtub, pulling out all the drawer and cabinet contents, etc. And, yes, he likes the toilet. And four-year-olds sometimes don't see the need to flush said toilet. It only took a couple of episodes of Nolan digging out soggy toilet paper FROM the toilet for us to institute a mandatory flushing, closing the toilet lid and closing the bathroom door rule in our house. However, we neglected to remember this issue when spending time at Jason's parents house when his brother's family was in town. Their 3-year-old must have the same anti-flush problem, as the girls apparently had a "poop party" in the bathroom (this is what I call Bailey's strange desire to accompany others to the bathroom while they do their business...and have people join her when she does hers) one night and then went off to play. Nolan was in the bedroom playing with the girls. Or so we thought. Here he came around the corner into the living room holding something that I thought, for a brief moment, looked a little like one of those wax molds you get made at the zoo of, say, a giraffe. As I was then thinking about where he would have gotten one of those since we haven't been to the zoo in awhile, I realized that his possession was poop. I immediately grabbed him up, he dropped the offensive item, and we ran to the bathroom to disinfect. Only then did I see the faint smudge of brown on the skin below his bottom lip. I really can't be sure he ate any, but if you're gonna grab poop out of the toilet I don't think there's anything stopping you from seeing what it tastes like.

And, that concludes the nasty mcnasty part of this post. FLUSH, PEOPLE, FLUSH.

As for the other food items mentioned in the post title, I think Nolan may have overcome his food aversions this holiday season. He has eaten so well, and then some. Grandma and Grandpa Cruson fed him a few twinkies behind my back (and in front of it - I have no authority around my dad!) and he consumed A LOT of ice cream. The kid couldn't get enough of it. I think we're going to have to avoid eating it in front of him in the future, as he went a little psycho. Once one person was done with their bowl, he'd just beg for more at the next person's bowl. He may get some meat on those bones yet!!

Here are a few pictures from the various holiday activities. NOTE: The brown all over Nolan's face in pics below is NOT poop.....I was a little preoccupied cleaning him up to even think about capturing the "memory." No, the brown is chocolate fed to him, yes, by my dad.

Fun With The Cox Clan

He's laughing at cousin Lauren and the Curious George monkey.

This was our New Year's Eve.....watching the kids attempt to play games.

Lauren and Bailey on their sleepover