The stuff that mommy blogs are made of....
2005 was my year of no-poop. 2006 is slated to be my year of poop. And we've started it off with a bang. Thankfully, the great and revealing mommy bloggers prepared me for it. I knew the day was coming, but how appropriate that the day turned out to be January 1, the start of a new Gregorian year. Yes, I'm speaking of that milestone of the first (probably of many) squirt up and out of the top of the back of the diaper.
The three of us celebrated the first day of the year by going to the mall to look at laptops and complete a few other errands. Soon after we arrived, MrMan started crying, so I buckled on the Baby Bjorn (or BB - highly recommend, by the way) and popped him in. He was asleep soon after, and Sam and I walked around for a couple of hours. When we got back to the car, I lifted the sleeping MrMan out of the BB, noticing a little yellow stain along the leg opening of his onesie. I put an extra cloth diaper under him in his car seat and buckled him in. I then examined myself for the corresponding yellow stain, finding it in the form of a little blob on the BB. Then I noticed that the part of the BB that encloses MrMan's back was wet. Sweat? Urine?
When we got home, I took MrMan and out of his seat and was surprised to find that the back of his once white onesie was now yellow with poop leakage - the day I'd been waiting for, but hadn't quite expected, was finally here. I was somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of poop and the extent of its spread, but I finally got him cleaned up. Yay for him being good natured about it.
Then I went and marked a notch on my mommy belt.
*A play on My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Posted by Shokufeh at January 9, 2006 09:52 PMCongrats! Camille blessed me with her first blow out a few days back. I feel like I've been christened!
Posted by: Emily at January 9, 2006 09:59 PMHere's to many more notches!
Posted by: george at January 9, 2006 11:02 PMHere's to more of those precious moments! :)
Posted by: Steph at January 10, 2006 10:05 AMI will never forget one that ended up with Logan having poop in his hair- all the way up the back with such force, it got in his hair! You know its love if you can look at that and giggle.
Posted by: mo at January 10, 2006 11:54 PMLOL! :) Yes, quite a milestone. We went to a wedding in October ~ Lucas's first ~ and after the ceremony, we noticed that Lucas smelled *very* STINKY. I took him to the car to change him [no great facilities existed elsewhere], and the poop was *horrible*. Up his back, leaking out from his diaper and onesie, etc. It was EVERYWHERE. And there I was in my dressy clothes, trying to change a squirmy Lucas in the backseat of our car. LOL! :) He had a *major* blowout at the mall over Christmas, too. I've never seen so much poop. :D So I understand!!!
Posted by: Lisanne at January 12, 2006 10:25 AM