This Corollary states that when husbands are home or are otherwise around to help with diaper changes, poopy diapers will be infrequent, if at all present. But when husbands return to work and the stay-at-home mom is the only one available for diaper changes, said diapers will be overflowing with poop!!!
Miss Gracie did not poop AT ALL yesterday. This is unusual, though she is normally a one-poop-a-day kind of baby. We lucked out that way. Some kids poop six times a day! I couldn't imagine.
As a result of the non-poopage yesterday, today we have had more than our fair share of poop! I could tell she was going to need a diaper change while she was eating breakfast, so I gave her some extra time. Sometimes the process takes ten or fifteen minutes.
As I'm changing her diaper, I'm surprised that there is so little product for so much work. Then I turn away to get a clean diaper out of the hamper (I've been lazy and haven't put the diapers away like I should have), and when I turn back, I'm confronted by the realization that she wasn't through pooping!! So now I have a mess to clean up. Fun stuff.
Once the mess is gone and she's in a clean diaper, it was off to the playpen with Miss Gracie for her morning tv watching. Yes, we watch tv in this house. She doesn't normally pay attention to it, however. Anyhow, as I'm chatting with my sister on the phone, I become aware of the need for another diaper change. But since she'd already pooped twice this morning, I figured it was just the last remnants of whatever was in her system, and she would not be uncomfortable if I put off changing her till I got myself together for the day.
Finally I get around to changing her about twenty minutes later. Ohhhhhhhhhh my goodness. I have no clue what the heck was going on with her today, but her last diaper was beyond full. If I had had her in a disposable, she would have blown it out. As it was, it was so bad that I had to take the diaper pail into the bathroom with me, which I NEVER have done before, and I needed to dunk both the liner and the diaper. Once everything was taken care of, I washed my hands thoroughly AND used the hand sanitizer. Usually I do one or the other, but it was so bad I just felt yucky.
I cannot believe all that poop came out of such a small body!
It may have been the pizza last night. See, Kurt and I finally went on another date last night. We would go more often, but our babysitter, JD, is an extremely busy woman, and it's hard for our schedules to coincide where she can watch Gracie for us. I am comfortable with her leaving her teenaged daughter here at the house after Gracie is asleep, but because her daughter doesn't have a whole lot of experience with changing diapers and the like, I would rather JD do the watching when Gracie is awake. But the last time Kurt and I had gone out, just the two of us, was for the Christmas party back in December.
Since Gracie can eat pretty much anything, I leave it up to JD to feed her whatever she's feeding her family that night. I've asked her if I should make a meal for Grace, but JD always says I don't need to. Last night, the Ds had pizza for dinner! Yum!! So I don't know... maybe Gracie is like her daddy and gets the runs when she has pizza and milk (although for Kurt it's pizza and chocolate milk).
Kurt and I had something a bit more fancy than pizza -- like salmon and dungeness crab penne in a dill-cream sauce for Kurt, and scallops carbonara penne for me. Oh, and Kurt actually had a beer (a hefeweizen) with dinner! I had a margarita (lime, on the rocks), of course. I didn't really like my pasta, although the scallops were heavenly, because the sauce was very heavily peppered. I like pepper as much as the next person, but I don't overdo it. So Kurt and I ate half our meals, and then switched. Kurt's pasta was so good. Next time we go to that place I'm getting that!! Well, if I don't get the steak & dungeness crab plate...
At this point I was pretty tipsy. I hardly drink and have never been one to get drunk, so two well-made margaritas were really hitting me. So what do two slightly drunk (Kurt was feeling the effects of his one beer since he doesn't drink either) people do?? They go to Target, of course!!
Just for the record, it's hard to keep your balance in Target when you're tipsy and you're wearing three-inch heels.
Once we finished up at Target, we went to the casino. Normally we take just $20 in, but last night we were bad and got $100 out of the ATM before we went. We only wagered $60 in the nickel slots, though, and we managed to leave after being there for two hours with $55 of the original $60. Not bad! I can't complain losing only $5.
While there, I had two more margaritas, the first of which was really weird-tasting. The second one was much better. So in four hours, I had four margaritas. By the time we got home, I was falling asleep every time I sat down. It was pretty sad.
I guess I'm just getting old! :o)