Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnnd I’m back! It’s been too long. Got in the routine of work, home with fam, up early with Connor… All that adds up to forgetting all about this whole plan to journal lots of things through this blog. So here is an update on one of the most interesting experiences in a while.

So Connor has been sleeping until about 7 every morning (goes to bed around 11ish, so that is amazing!!). Today he got up at 6:45, but when he gets up know he is laughing and cooing, not crying. I got his bottle ready and walked into his room and when he hears me, he turns his head to see who it is. Every morning, when he sees me, he just smiles so big. I totally love it!

So we go about our routine, and I am feeding him when I hear a little fart. I think it’s no big deal, especially since over the last couple days he has this pattern of going almost 2 days between poops (don’t worry this is normal for a baby of his age). Then it happens, like an explosion of a bubbly mess. I run with him to the changing table, and it’s too late. He loves the changing table and always squirms around on it and now is doing it again. There is poop everywhere! Up his back, in his outfit, being flung by his little legs at me, in my nose, on my clothes… AHHHHHHHHH! I take his outfit off, and take his diaper off, and take a naked poop covered baby to the bathroom to clean in the sink. On the way there, what do you think happens? He pees all over me! I call for Bridget who comes into the bathroom laughing stating “Now you know what I meant when I said this happened the other day.”

I cleaned him in the sink, Bridget got a towel and took Connor. I then had to clean his outfit and the cloth diapers (don’t worry, he was wearing a real diaper, the cloth ones are for cleaning messes…. like this one). One may ask, how do you clean poop off of these garments? IN THE TOILET OF COURSE!!! It was so nasty to scrub poop off his outfit with my hands in the toilet… I stain sticked everything and threw it in the washing machine along with my urine soaked shirt. All in all, looking back now it’s pretty funny, but at the time it was actually kind of scary. Who knew such a little man could do so much poop?

The best part of the day, after I feed him we play every morning. We do tummy time and play around on the couch, then I reswaddle him and he goes to bed until about 9ish. So I bring him back to his crib, swaddle him and he looks right at me. You ever have one of those moments where you look at someone, and you both just get that big smile and start laughing? You don’t know why, but you know it’s great and you just start laughing. The kind of smile you have with your best friend when you are a kid and no one else understands…

Well Connor and I had that kind of moment! We both just looked at each other and got the biggest smiles ever. I laughed, he laughed. It was awesome and memorable! It makes you feel so loved! God I am a lucky guy!

So now Grandma came to visit him and Bridget, Connor and her mom are all hanging out in the living room. I’m hanging out watching Carmelo Anthony’s debut. Kinda cool! OK, I promise to post more going forward….