Daddy Daycare - Day 1

C8085570, a photo by C. Moran on Flickr.

[By Corey]

With Jenny going back to work and daycare starting after Labor Day, I was first up to bridge the gap. It got off to a bit of a rough start this morning, when the first wake-up call came at 1:45 a.m. when the motion sensor alarm on his baby monitor started going off, because he'd moved himself into a corner. One arm had gotten free, but I moved him back to the middle and went back to bed...

...until 3:00 a.m. when his other arm got free and he woke himself up, at which point he realized he was hangry (hungry + angry--a Moultrie-coined phrase). So, after 45 minutes of fighting the bottle, I put him back down to bed...

...until 5:45 a.m. when he woke up a little upset. A quick visit to comfort him and I was back to bed...

...until 7 a.m. when he was ready to get up for the day, so I fed him and put him on the changing table. While reaching for a spare diaper I heard a sound similar to a hose filling a plastic wading pool. That would be the sound of Jackson peeing on the table. Thankfully, he managed to pee right over his head and I wasn't forced into an emergency bath.

The only other incident came with his next feeding. The sure-fire jinx was thinking: "What if he has an accident on the only clean changing table cover left?" So, the instant I sat him on the table, he spit up all over it. Not like a little drool. More like half of what he just ate. So, add a load a laundry to the list of things to do in the morning.

But after that point, the rest of the day went pretty smoothly and I managed to get both a shower and lunch.

Not sure who was more excited to see Jenny come home though. I'm exhausted.