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Six Weeks With Daddy – Day #15 – It’s A Good Day For A Monday!

// May 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Baby

Today has been a surprisingly easy day. We started off the morning at 630 with him laying next to me on my pillow and listening to his favorite acoustic music. Then we had a bottle and a diaper change. Shortly after that he took about a 3 hour nap. We then had another bottle, a poopie diaper and we headed out into town where he slept the entire time.

I was approached but another stranger that told me how cute he was and then reminded me, “Enjoy it now because they grow up so fast.” I’m really getting tired of hearing that. When we got back home it was time for another bottle and we’ve just been playing and talking for about the last hour.

Now it’s nap time but he doesn’t want to admit it. He’s sitting in his bouncer half crying/fussing and then calming down and then starting back up and then calming down. In between he closes his eyes for a moment. It’s like he’s upset that he’s sleepy and he doesn’t want to miss anything. The only thing he will miss is me sitting on the couch and possibly doing a little tidying around the house.

It’s ok, you can sleep through that child because when you’re older you will be the one doing the tidying!

Now he’s sleeping.

Nap time – 3. Baby – 0

Six Weeks with Daddy – Day #5

// April 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Marriage

::630am:: It was a day like any other….and then the whole thing blew up. We started off as normal. When the baby woke up we played and talked for a little bit, changed a peepee diaper and then had our bottle. Then everything started to fall apart.

::800am:: As I’m getting dressed, I hear grunting coming from the living room. As powerful as a Daddy may be, you cannot control when your child is going to poop. (Despite my best efforts to change his poop time to the evening after Mommy gets home.) Alright, let’s change the poopy diaper. Nothing much out of the ordinary until I thought I had everything cleaned up and I realized that the poop went halfway down his back, skipped a little bit and then continued on up towards his neck. Even though I got everything cleaned with a mountain of wet wipes I felt this was a good time for him to have a bath. So we took a quick bath to wash off the poop residue….or resi-doodoo if you will.

::830am:: A clean, dressed baby = a happy baby, right? Wrong. I realized I still had a poopy diaper folded up and sitting on the counter. Today is trash day so I decided to take it outside and put in an old trash bag so I stop stinking up the house. (Yesterday I put two poopy diapers in the kitchen trash can and the house STILL smells like poop.) Mind you I’m still in my underwear at this point.

::9am:: I managed to squeeze in a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios (ironic since no one was “cheery” this morning) and getting dressed somewhere in between fits and we were off to pick up my sister so we could go visit my aunt. He was alright in the car until we stopped for gas. He doesn’t like stopping.

::930am:: He drank a bottle on the road and by the time we got to my aunt’s house he was still wide awake butt at least happy now. He was excellent during our visit. He smiled and talked the whole time.

::1015am:: Time to head back home. Today seems to be the day of little cat naps. 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there. What happened to the baby that slept for 2-3 hours every 2-3 hours all week??

::11am:: We met Grandpa for lunch at Burger King. He was excellent until I got about halfway through my double cheeseburger. Then he decided it was time to go home. I thought he had pooped so we headed for the house since we live just down the street. Turns out it was just a smelly fart. Drank another bottle and then down for a nap. Just kidding. No nap!

::1230pm:: Finally drifted off to sleep in the swing so it was time to mop the floor! I actually managed to kitchen the entire kitchen and entry way swept and mopped while he slept. My socks are wet now though because I kept forgetting the proper way to mop and end up mopping myself into a corner. Then I have to step on the wet floor to get out.

::130pm:: After a couple of close calls of waking up he dozed off again and is currently sleeping. I’m going to enter in some Pampers Gifts to Grow rewards points and then take a nap myself!

Six Weeks with Daddy – Day #3

// April 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Baby

::530am:: It’s nice to have six weeks off work to stay home with the baby but it was stupid of me to think that I would get to sleep in. Hello 5:30am, let’s start our day shall we?

::745am:: Vanilla Milkshake pop tarts are the best! Not part of a nutritious breakfast I’m sure but when you’re up at 5:30am, who cares.

Baby played a nice little trick on me. He was crying in the swing so I picked him up to play with him. He kept right on crying and after a while I decided to go ahead and make a bottle for him. So I laid him on the couch to go get the bottle and he’s just been laying here playing for the last 20 minutes. No bottle necessary. There is something about laying flat on his back on the couch cushion that he likes. I’m wondering how long it will be before he spits up on the cushion. I should probably put a burp cloth under his head shouldn’t I?

::807am:: Note to self: Before feeding baby, if you need to go to bathroom go beforehand. Only one of you is wearing and diaper and the baby is in no mood to wait for you to do your duty.

::9am:: It’s funny how 9am feels very similar to bed time to me. Good thing I still have my PJ’s on. I’m going to turn this couch into a bed now.

::1005am:: Like father like son. After spending some time fussing/crying in the swing I picked him up to console him. My traditional methods weren’t working so I broke out the iPhone for some music. He loves music. Today Boyce Avenue was very effective at calming him down. He just blankly stares off while he’s listening. It’s like he’s really taking it in. Here are some of his fav’s from Boyce Avenue.

::1110am:: He’s a little late on his morning nap today. It might be because for the last two days we have been outside of the house in and out of the car. He loves riding in the car. At times when we stop at red lights for too long he gets a little cranky but he’s fine as soon as the light turns green and we take off again. I think he has his Daddy’s need for speed built in. During Mommy’s break at work we sent her some live video of baby playing on the couch and talking with our Knocking Live Video app on our iPhones. She sent me live video everyday while I was at work so now I get to return the favor. It’s great to see your baby even while you’re working! If you don’t have this app you need to download it and use it!

Now that he’s napping I’m not sure what to do. I could eat lunch. I could get dressed. I should probably do both.

::1247pm:: While baby was napping I managed to get in a nap myself. I think it was only about 20 mins but I feel refreshed nonetheless!

::1005pm:: Whoops! Totally forgot to update at the end of the day. Today was the first day in 4 or 5 days that we didn’t leave the house all day. The baby celebrated by sleeping most of the day and Daddy went stir crazy. So we made a trip to Target when Mommy got home and bought a couple of outfits for baby. One I Love My Daddy and one Future Rocket Scientist. I was told not to get the Future Rocket Scientist one because “orange doesn’t look good on him” but I got it anyway. Anything looks good on our baby!

See ya tomorrow!