Day 2

We are on day 2 of Mommy at home alone with baby and puggy while Daddy goes to work. After yesterday's success, I expected today to be even better. I was so wrong! Colin started pooping around 3 am and it was nearly non-stop all day long. He was fussy all day because he was always in a dirty diaper, even though I kept changing it. It seems that as soon as I would change it he souls poop again. One time, right after a change, I had him sitting next to me on the couch when I heard the blowout...and it did blow out...on the couch and me! I didn't notice the poop on my pants until after I had finished cleaning it off the couch...it was all over my knees. I am still not sure how that happened--he was sitting next to me.

By about 4pm, I was calling Matt asking when he would be home.  I didn't get a nap and was exhausted.  Colin was cranky because he kept pooping his pants.  Matt needed to stay at work later because he is catching up with things from the last 3 weeks, so we were stuck with each other.  After hanging up with Matt, Colin and I both finally fell asleep on the couch.  It was a nice hour-long nap for both of us.

Matt arrived home around 6pm just as Colin was ready for another feeding.  Matt took over right away and I got a much needed break.

Matt was great about everything and just asked what he could do to help.  Thank you to all the other dads he knows that told him that there would be days like this and to just do whatever to help.

Today did come with one really good revelation...I had to go to the ATM, but didn't want to get Colin out of the car just for that.  I also didn't want to leave him in the car when it was over 90 degrees outside--even when the ATM was only about 10 feet away.  I started by rolling the windows down a little, but that seemed even worse because the a/c had cooled the car down more than the outside.  As I walked to the ATM, I had a revelation and thought that I could remote start the car and the a/c would keep running and the inside would stay cool, but the car was locked and I had the keys!  I did feel bad when I got back to the car and Colin was screaming.  Figured out later it was from a dirty diaper.

Here's to hoping tomorrow is a better day.