Three's a Crowd: Apoocalypse Now

Friday-Saturday night was rough. Michael woke up EVERY TWO HOURS like clockwork. All night I was thinking please let him sleep through the rest of the night. At 4:45 am I changed his diaper and fed him. He thankfully fell back asleep around 5:15-5:30. When he started crying at 6am, I asked Rob to get up with him cause I was done getting out of bed.

I woke up again around 7ish. Michael was quiet on the monitor, so I went down stairs and started getting his breakfast warmed. Baby was still quiet when I went back up, so I clicked on the video part of our monitor. Perplexed, I asked Rob why Michael was naked. Rob (still in bed) responded that he probably had on his white diaper and just looked naked. That would have been an acceptable answer, except you could clearly see baby butt crack.

I go into Michael's room and he is indeed naked. Naked and covered in poop. Additionally, the sheets, blanket, and all four sides of the bed had pee and poop on them. The diaper, neatly folded in the corner, was clean and dry! Seriously, there wasn't even pee in the diaper. Since M was sleeping, I ran back into our room screaming for Rob to get up and help me, cause I was totally freaking out. Rob grabbed our poopy baby and bathed him while I cleaned up the bedding. Everything was just soaked with pee and covered in poo. It. Was. AWFUL! After a thorough bath and a lot of bleach I felt a little better. Luckily we had swim class after the poo-tastrophe, so Michael got chlorine clean too. Bleh, being a parent really, really raises your tolerance for disgusting things.

Anywho! Post apoocalypse swim class was our last swim class of the summer. Miss Velvet, the instructor, told us we could sign Michael up for the two year old class next summer! Yay, moving on up! Michael is quite the little fish now; he swims around the bath tub, and tries to climb in and out on his own (climbing out on his own was part of swim class). Hopefully we'll get in the pool some more before summer is officially over, and I might look into swim classes at the Y here in Athens during the fall and winter. It all depends on Rob's schedule once school starts up on August 12!

In cuter, less dirty baby news, Michael has had a big week developmentally! He started to wave bye bye. He practices a lot and he very carefully watches his hands, so it's pretty cute! Another skill we're working on, but haven't mastered, is clapping/banging two objects together. I've been trying to get him to clap since 6 months- no dice. He would either stare at me like I was nuts, or smile and laugh. This past week I've really been working with him on the banging two objects, and he is really enjoying himself. I'll give him two blocks and help him hit them together. He will laugh really hard and do it himself. By "do it himself," I mean he flails wildly, hitting the blocks 30-50% of the time. Today when I was clapping for him, he started laughing and flailing his hands around in front of him, at first I thought he was just being silly but I realized he was trying to clap! Funny and adorable!

Before I had kids, I always made fun of friends who posted stuff like, OMG my baby rolled over!!!! I thought, whatever big deal no one cares. While I still don't write individual Facebook posts every time Michael does something remotely interesting, I will say it is pretty amazing to watch a baby learn and master a skill. I don't think it's possible to learn as much and as quickly as a baby does in their first year of life. They go from being sleeping, eating, pooping blobs (cute blobs) the day they are born, to walking, talking, mischief makers by their first birthday. It's freaking amazing! When people say their baby is a genius, it's true... But now, I think ALL babies are geniuses in the first year!

Finally, while it hasn't made its appearance yet, we are in the process of cutting a tooth. You can see a tiny tooth shaped bump on Michael's bottom gum line. It's getting bigger everyday, and Michael is getting needier/whinier everyday. Stay tuned for Tooth-Gate updates!

And now for some pictures!