Thanksgiving

For Alexa's first Thanksgiving we went down to south Florida to visit family and lets just say that the first 36 hours of our trip was full of bodily fluid. Even though Alexa does really well in the car, we decided to stop in Orlando for the night to break up the trip. So Tuesday night we drove to Katie and Janell's. I was walking Alexa around the room because she had been kind of fussy (she does that in the evening) and all of a sudden I felt some wet nasty on my arm. I looked down and she had vomited all over the place. I know what you're thinking. How much could a little baby really have puked? Ounces people, multiple ounces. I ran into Katie's bathroom with vomit literally dripping onto the floor behind me (sorry Katie). There was puke all over her clothes, all over my clothes (shirt, bra, pants, everything), all over her face. I mean, I was wiping it out of her hair. It was everywhere. And the child never made a sound! So we got her all cleaned up, new pj's and we all went to bed. She got up at around 3:30 to eat (no big deal) but by 5:00 when she absolutely refused to go back to sleep we decided to just drive the rest of the way to Hollywood. So, on with the bodily fluid stories. The rest of the morning was pretty uneventful fluid wise. I had to change the sheets on the bed once because Alexa had some projectile sharting, but nothing too crazy. We took naps and waited for my mom to get home from work. That afternoon we went to go see Grammy (my grandmother). As she was holding Alexa she commented that the diaper had just turned warm and that Alexa probably just peed. I picked Alexa up to check her diaper and there was poo all over Grammy's pants. When I took the diaper off, there was poo coming out of everywhere. The top, back, sides, everywhere. It was on her dress. There was poo up to her chest. Alexa got her second wipes bath in 24 hours. That evening we had a little dinner for all of Alexa's grandparents and great-grandmothers. I went to change her at one point and as I lifted her butt up to wipe her, she had more projectile pooping that got onto my hand, arm and yes, the sheets. Great. The sheets have to be changed again, at least it didn't get on her clothes. So I finished wiping her down and when I picked her butt up the next time to slide the new diaper under her, she peed all over the place. Soaked her outfit and the changing pad (yes, that's right, I said changing pad. When she got poo on the sheets she shot it past the changing pad. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself. My kid could be a professional poo shooter.) and so Alexa had what seemed to be her fifteenth costume change of the day. At least she is getting to wear all her pretty outfits!

The rest of our Thanksgiving was wonderful with no more poo on outfits or sheets. Alexa got to meet lots of our friends and family and everyone loved her, of course. We are super excited to go back for Christmas!

My Child The Nudist

Alexa is one month old now which is kind of crazy. We went to the doctor Tuesday for her one month check up and she is 20 3/4 inches long and weighs 8lbs 3oz. She had to have LFTs drawn because she's still a little jaundiced but Dr. Elzie said that's pretty common for babies who are nursing. Other then that, she is in perfect health. Everyone keeps commenting on how tiny she is but I think she's huge! I swear I can see her growing. She is starting to have a little personality too. She loves music, her play mat, her bouncy seat, her little butterfly toy, and most of all she loves being naked. I'm not kidding. The kid is a nudist. At first I thought that she liked taking a bath so much because of the water and maybe she calmed down on the changing table because we were changing a dirty diaper. Nope. Not true. (well, maybe partially true) She just really likes to be naked. It's not like the clothes or diapers are bothering her. She has no rashes or anything and most of the time she is perfectly happy with her clothes on. But if she starts to get fussy for no reason, all you have to do is strip her down. I told her that it's all good now but she better try to kick the habit at least before she's five because it's socially unacceptable to go to kindergarten nakie (Nick and Katie, please appreciate the use of the word 'nakie'). Here's a picture of naked Alexa (at least she keeps the head band on...for now). We had them done at Picture People when we went to Orlando last weekend. I still think my mom and I do just as good with the photography.