These are all normal baby happenings, but I've been very busy with chores and these fun, little moments have occurred in just a couple of days, so I've been feeling a bit tired!
One day John pooped five times in one day (usually it's once) then vomited four times in an hour. I was in the midst of a fun project when John became sick and, as I realized it wasn't going to be just one spit-up, I thought, "Oh, so this is what I'll be doing with my evening." It was an interesting detached moment, like mild surprise, that I thought I'd be doing one thing when really I'd be doing another. I was pleased with myself that I didn't become too disappointed.
That evening, I managed to change John's outfit and my shirt between each vomiting episode (because I was being so "efficient"), so I created an entire load of laundry in an hour. Poor Baby John was so tired, he would fall asleep between episodes, then wake up because he was vomiting again. Then I was too worried to leave John lying down in his sleep, so I put him in his sling and let him sleep there while I rocked in the glider for an hour. Don't worry, he was fine at the end of it all!
John has bonked his forehead twice this week, probably because he's becoming more and more mobile. Neither was at all dangerous, but these were his first head bonks and startled him into wailing and big, sloppy tears. Of course, I would rather my head be bonked one hundred times than he have his head bonked once!
This morning, John had a diaper blow-out while sitting in my lap. Then while changing him, he managed to get his foot covered in the stuff and to get some on his face--who knows how--which I only discovered dried much later. When he was all clean but still naked, he peed all over before I could catch it. Oh, and then there was the incident perhaps last week when John peed all over his own face and into his eyes during his diaper change before I could catch it! John didn't seem to mind at all and thought it was quite funny.
Being a mama is full of new experiences and learning how to live in the moment and be detached from my Grand Plans.
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