Time flies

Today we celebrated (sort of) the Booger's 6 month birthday by heading to Lansing to (really) celebrate his cousins 8th birthday with his aunts, uncles, and cousins.

I can not believe how amazingly quickly half a year has flown by. Everyone tells you, but you don't really believe it until you see it (like a lot of things, of course). I was incredibly sad to realize the other day that I will soon be in a classroom 5 days a week all day, and not be able to look forward to seeing him on my lunch break. We will cross that bridge before we come to it, somehow.

We love being parents and truly have the best baby ever. He is almost always happy, loves to play, smile, and laugh. He learns and does new things every day, and is just all around amazing. I just looked over at him, and he's cuddled up with his daddy, snoring away. So sweet.

The other day, I found the hat he wore in the hospital-

it doesn't quite fit any more...

The Diaper Diaries

I think every parent will agree that if they stop to think about the conversations with the other people who care for their child, they will agree that the content has changed drastically since their son or daughter was born. Especially if they've known that person pre-baby. No longer are chats about catching up on people at work or other day to day happenings...

Number one topic: Diaper tracking and analysis!

Who would have thought that once you become a parent, one of the most frequent thoughts you'd have about your bouncing bundle of joy would be about diapers- and not whether you have enough- but what's in them?

I'm sure that all the super helpful, informative parent books and magazines are partly to blame. How many times have you read something about the number of dirty and/or wet diapers your baby should have at this age and that age? How many times have you felt bad because you didn't count how many he or she had, and then spent the next day obsessing to make sure they are 'functioning' properly?

With an almost 6 month old who is eating solid food (or what passes for solid food at this age), one of the staple questions after the usual "How was your day?" and "What's for dinner?", has now become "Did the Booger poop today?" This is followed by a description of whatever the lucky parent recieved as a gift that day. We have split baby duty pretty fairly, and the Booger's daddy has always done diaper duty with me, but recently we've both tried to pass at least one diaper change a day to the other parent for one reason and one reason only- stink.

I have heard people in awe over how so much of something so ucky could come out of something so little and so cute. I've now officially joined that club because the Booger has another talent- filling his diaper so full it comes out the top in the front and the back. Never thought I'd have to clean anything but fuzz out of his belly button...

Anybody have their own Olympic diaper stories? I'm sure we'd all enjoy a good laugh at the expense of someone else's washing machine! Tell your friends- maybe if we get some good ones, we could vote on the top three for some diaper coupons.