C is usually ready for a snack when I pick him up from daycare. He usually gets whatever parts of his waffle that went unfinished at breakfast. Leftover waffles don't go bad and don't start to smell funny by the end of the day. They also don't get very crumby, which makes them an ok car snack.
We had to stop at the grocery store on the way home, and we were almost there after our 15 minute commute. I thought the 1/4 waffle he was munching on was long gone. Then he sneezed the biggest sneeze I've ever heard from him. As he sneezed, something hit me in the back of my neck. A waffle particle. A rather large waffle particle, complete with spitty slime and ooze.
When we got to the store I pulled him out of his seat and discovered that the entire seat back was sprayed with chewed up waffles. He had squirreled the whole thing. What was he doing, saving it for dessert? I'm rather particular about my car and was panicking because I didn't have the diaper bag with me (it doesn't go in the car for daycare trips) and if I didn't clean the goop off it would stick and then dry and harden and it would be impossible to get off.
Then I remembered the small pack of baby wipes I had handed back to C to get him to stop screaming the weekend before. He had thrown them under the seat and I hadn't retrieved them yet. Success!
From now on I will always carry baby wipes in the glove box. I'm sure most moms do that anyway, but just in case.
