Leaky II

My friend Shannon and her baby, Madison, came over for a visit yesterday. It was a lovely day to be outside, so after chatting a bit and feeding up the kids, we grabbed some cool and refreshing chow at the Pad Thai Shack and headed to Rittenhouse Square.

It was great to catch up on all the goings on in our respective households; since Madison is exactly 6 weeks younger than Austen, Shannon and I do a lot of note-comparing on all kinds of baby subjects. One thing she asked me was whether I still needed the coussinets, or whether the leakage had stopped. I replied that it's mostly stopped, but since I still dribble a bit occasionally, I thought I'd just use up my remaining supply (I bought a new box of 60 when we got to San Francisco).

Apparently this comment angered the breast milk gods, because when I went to get Austen out of his crib this morning at 7am, I found that my nursing bra was wet on the right side (the one that's usually *less* leaky!). The coussinet inside was completely saturated—heavier than a full pee diaper, if you know what that feels like. Good thing I've still got 30+ coussinets left...

Speaking of leakage, here's a new example of Murphy's Law: We've noticed that every time we give Austen a bath, his diaper leaks the next morning. Why is that?

In other baby news, it seems my instinct to look for new earrings today was right on the money (I was trying to find some simple but pretty studs): While playing with Austen after shopping, he grabbed my face, turned my head so he could get a better look at my right earlobe, and then reached for the little ring in the bottom hole. Luckily I figured out what he was up to before he made the grab, so I was ready to catch his hand in mine to keep him from pulling once he caught hold of the earring. It's really amazing to me how good his grabbing skills have gotten over the past three weeks or so.

I mentioned that we'd planned to buy Austen an exersaucer when we returned from SF; we did indeed do that on Saturday. We couldn't find the exact one that Craig & Nico had (apparently baby toys rev even more frequently than software), but we picked out a model that had a gadget similar to the one Austen was so enamored with on it. I actually thought the model we picked had too many gadgets, but I figured we could just not install all of them. As it happened, Austen got the hang of turning in the little seat pretty quickly and expected to see some new toy with every quarter turn, so I kept adding toys until they were all on there. It looks overwhelming when he's not in it, but he seems to love it, so I can't complain. About half the toys were installed when I took this photo:

Interestingly, his favorite items seem to be the orange jester thing on the right, the frog (which tends to bop him in the head a lot, as if reminding him to stuff it into his mouth), and the king and queen (which I think are supposed to make sounds, but don't—to my immense relief). He hardly plays with the bead-filled cylinder that was our reason for picking this model at all. (Actually, I'd pick the orange jester over the bead cylinder, too.)

the frog heads for Austen's mouththe king and queen, in foreground

More later, when I'm not so tired (and when I don't have a million other things to do with my limited free time... oh, wait, that might be never. <sigh>).

Posted by Lori in parenthood at 11:01 PM on April 20, 2005

Comments (3)

Lori

Your giving him his bath right before bed right? this happens to Megan alot. Since we've added showers to the mix I noticed it coincides with when she drinks alot of water usually on bath nights. Chances are Austin is drinking bath water even though he isn't picking up a cup and downing it - probably as it dribbles down his face etc.

Cheers
Lori

Lori [TypeKey Profile Page]:

I actually think the act of washing his penis gets it in a leak-friendly position. He's definitely not drinking the bath water. :)

He just gets cuter and cuter!

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Lori

Your giving him his bath right before bed right? this happens to Megan alot. Since we've added showers to the mix I noticed it coincides with when she drinks alot of water usually on bath nights. Chances are Austin is drinking bath water even though he isn't picking up a cup and downing it - probably as it dribbles down his face etc.

Cheers
Lori

Posted by: Lori Herrington [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 21, 2005 11:35 AM

I actually think the act of washing his penis gets it in a leak-friendly position. He's definitely not drinking the bath water. :)

Posted by: Lori [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 21, 2005 7:21 PM

He just gets cuter and cuter!

Posted by: ratphooey [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 24, 2005 11:07 PM

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