poop poop poop.

im not afraid of changing a poopy diaper. i clean a butt like no other. however, i am skeeved by poop on clothes. i have no idea why, it just really grosses me out. i always want to just throw out the damn onesie but jae insists on cleaning it. so ever since maddie was a baby, it has always been his job to clean the poopy clothes.

whenever maddie has a big blow out, i leave the contaminated good in front of the guest bathroom. when jae gets home he gets his surprise. he cleans it well with laundry detergent, leaves it wet in the laundry room and i pop it in during the next load.

its a great partnership cuz i really do not like cleaning poopy clothes. the poop gets all up into the fibers and the big brown stain under water just makes me gag.

this particular poop in the picture happened in her jumparoo. it doesnt look so bad now that i see it, but trust me, it was on everything she touched. i sort of knew based on her position in the jumparoo that the poop would travel up her butt. I heard her poop but i checked her shirt and saw nothing. by the time i brought her upstairs and laid her down on the changing pad, she was covered. her undershirt, her top shirt, her pants...it was up to her neck. then try taking these clothes off over her head. they get on her arms, chest, collarbone. and also my arms and hands. not to mention she has already gotten the changing pad dirty, so even if you clean her up, theres nothing to lay her back down on. so with one hand holding her, and the other hand getting another pad, you have to juggle the dirty vs the clean.

i have to wipe her down with a million wipes, and make sure during this time her flailing hands do not touch poop cuz her hands are always in her mouth. i can wipe poop off her back, ears, hands etc. but i just cannot bring myself to scrub poop out from her clothes.

Speaking of poop, today her poop looked and smelled like avacado.

such is the life of a mommy.

onto happier topics...

maddie sort of did something cool today. usually when i put her down for a nap, our routine ends with me holding her over my shoulder, patting her back and gently swaying while shushing or singing to her. usually she will look around until she gets drowsy and calm and starts staring off into space.

when she gets tired, she starts to bury her head into your neck or shirt. so today she started to put her head on my shoulder but my chin got in the way. so her mouth was sort of stuck on my chin. its so cute seeing her little face so close to mine so i started to move my mouth up and down on her face. she started to giggle and squeal, so i did it again. she laughed and then kept putting her mouth on my chin for me to do over again.

it was the first instance where she actually played with me. usually i will entertain her, she will laugh and such but this was the first time she interacted back. we played back and forth rather than me just entertaining her. pretty cool.

she is also starting to eat more. today, after her avacado lunch, she seemed to want more so i gave her some cereal on top of it. In the evening time, I was eating some homemade turkey noodle soup and she was watching me like crazy. She was drooling and moving her mouth too, so i decided to give her a tablespoon of cereal. well after there was no more, she started to cry! wow! tomorrow i will up the amount of solids ive been giving her.

speaking of her crying, she didnt just cry, she SCREECHED. in like one of those mad bitchy screeches, like "bitch, you better get me more food!" kind of sounds. jae and i looked at each other like WHOAH. she's mean, man! i was shocked. The same thing sort of happened today too when i was sitting her in my lap and i was doing something on the laptop. She was playing with a post-it...happy as can be. Well I finished what i was doing and I picked her up and moved away and she started to do a bitchy cry. Like I had moved her away from something she was doing. So shes starting to have opinions and notice where she is. In the past if she was doing something, I could move her or distract her and she wouldnt care. I could take something out of her hand and she couldn't care less. Her personality is definitely coming through.

Also today, I put her down for her 3rd nap at 3:30 and it took her till 4:10 to fall asleep. During this time she was fussing (she usually goes down right away), i started to think maybe she was sleep transitioning again...so i looked up when babies start to move from 3 naps to 2 and i discovered its at 6 months. Thats next month! What the.... this came WAY faster than i ever expected. 2 naps a day? Thats MAD hours for me to keep her occupied. I'm scared. and its wintertime too so its not like i can even take her outdoors.

So many changes going on lately..... I can't keep up with this kid.