My Happy Baby

    Henry is just the cutest little baby! He's also a really happy baby. I've been having a hard time getting my camera ready at just the right moments to capture him smiling, but fortunately I've figured out how to take screen shots within videos on our camera. So when he's in a smiley mood, I'll take a quick video and get a few different smiles out of it. Here's what I got on Friday morning:

  I love that little boy!!
And, as promised, I took a picture of him in one of his new owl outfits:

I was so excited to find an owl outfit that was for little boys- usually they're just for girls. I tried to get a picture of him in his other owl outfit, but he was moving in his swing, so the picture didn't turn out. I'll have to wait until the next time he wears it. It's super cute, though. Trust me.

   And, after days of super short naps, Henry finally decided that today would be a good day to just sleep. He took a nap from about 12:30-3:30, ate, and then he went right back to sleep at 4-ish. I hope he'll still sleep tonight.
----Aaaand of course as soon as I write that, he wakes up.
So that concludes this blog post. :)

Poopocalypse 2

So Jeff has been gone for over a day now. I think that I've been doing pretty well in his absence, too. I had to clip Henry's nails, which I've been dreading and putting off for a long time, but ended up not being a big deal. And I've been puked on several times, but have handled it like a champ. Today, however, Henry unleashed "Poopocalypse 2: Uncharted Territory."


It's hard to explain, so let me show you:

Can you see the poo that's oozing out of his onesie? There was a whole puddle up there!

 All I had was my cameraphone at the time, and since I don't have my iphone 5 yet (because it's not out), my phone pics aren't the best. But it gives you a pretty good idea of what was going on.
Luckily, I had set Henry down on his changing pad, because it was completely covered in poo within seconds. Also, that's what I ended up carrying him down to the bathtub in, so I was extra lucky.

I actually considered having my little brother, Layne, just grab me some scissors so I could cut this onesie off of him. I thought it might be easier than getting poop on his head and face. I decided against it though because it would've been really wasteful, and instead had my brother grab me two plastic grocery bags so I could put the diaper in one and his outfit in the other.

Even though I was super careful, he still got poo all over himself.

This is just the beginning of the poop-smear. What's notable about this picture is how calm he is about all of it.

Yep. There was even poo on his ears and on the top of his head.

This is where everything that didn't end up in his onesie landed.

So I gave Henry the bath of the century and just laughed to myself. After he was clean (which didn't take as long as I thought it would, thankfully) I had to wash his changing pad and his bath chair. That took longer than anything else, but they're both pretty small so it wasn't bad.

The hardest part of this whole incident was that I wasn't just able to yell "HELP" and have Jeff come running. I had to be calm and make specific requests in order to get the help I needed. I also didn't have Jeff's help strategizing how to go about cleaning him up, so I just kinda sat there laughing at Henry while I thought up what to do.

Everything turned out fine, and I was able to dress him in one of the new outfits I got him today. I was given a gift card to Old Navy, so I got to buy Henry lots of clothes, which doesn't usually happen since almost all of his clothes have been gifted by friends and relatives. I almost went buck wild in the clearance section, but reigned it in when I saw two (full-price) blue owl outfits I wanted more than anything.  I'll for sure post pics when he wears them.

So what do you think? Is "Poopocalypse 2: Uncharted Territory" the most accurate sequel name or is there a better one? Hit me with your best sequel title!