Day four –

Snow day. Our weather pattern here is a random mix of events. 70 degrees one day, snow the next. This appears to be the last snowstorm of the year. Mom stayed home from work today – dad gets a break.

With mom home, I did the early shift. At 1:30 a.m., lil’ man awoke and needed a Binky to be replaced. Simple enough. I returned to bed until 5:00 and then awoke to prepare for the day. Mom got up at 7:00 a.m. and we had a chance for some morning conversation. I was spent from the manual labor of yesterday and mom quickly took charge of the day. She did laundry, dishes, cleaned…all while I was a worthless pile of human wreckage on the sofa. The snow fell to about 7” in depth. Normally, I would go out into the snow and play a bit while it lasted. Today, I just remained on the sofa and let the world go on around me. Again, mom asked for help with the cloth diaper experiment and I obliged to show her my technique in changing the diaper. While changing it, it noticed something unusual about the situation. Closer investigation showed our son was peeing on his face. One of our friend’s has a 1-year-old son who seems to be perfectly mannered and well behaved. We talked with her about how she has been raising him and she casually mentioned that her son has peed in his own mouth several times. I said, “Well, if that is what it takes to have such a well behaved son, I hope ours does just the same!”, little did I know that it would be happening on my diaper change shift. As it may be an awful thing, mom and I both had a solid laugh. We cleaned him up and Mom continued to take charge of our son for the remainder of the day. I performed the 9:00 p.m. feeding, as mom lay on the sofa, spent and emotionless. We both went to bed at 9:30 p.m.