Sickness

Baby is sick today. He keeps coughing and sneezing. When he sneezes, his giant snot boogers just hang down from his nose until he rubs up against something or eats them. I try to keep an eye on him so that I can wipe his nose before he recycles the boogers. Well my last catch was amazing. It was like a buzzer beater in basketball. The snot booger was already in his mouth when I grabbed it out and saved the day.

Also, sometimes baby has poops that are one moderate sized hard chunk. It's possible that when he does that type of poop in a relatively freshly changed diaper, I may at times just pull the poop pellet out through the leg hole with my hand and flush it. It's so much easier than changing the whole thing.

Since I've got the liqui-poop today, I'm keeping a watchful eye on baby to make sure that he doesn't get it, and that if he does, I'm there to change it right away. In the meantime, baby will remain in his cage watching Disney Channel while I expel every ounce of water in my body through my bunghole.

Single Parenthood

Last Wednesday I flew out to DC with baby for the weekend. While there I interviewed with an accounting firm and I drove down to Raleigh to visit a dear friend. On our flight back to SLC (while sitting in a window seat) baby vomited two bottles worth of smelly curdled milk all over me. I felt so bad for the two Ukrainian dudes next to me that had to get up and let us out so we could clean up (as much as possible) and then had to sit next to us all stinky for the rest of the flight.

I assumed last week's trip was the last of playing single dad for a while and it would have been had my wife not gone to the ER last night with major abdominal cramping. One ectopic pregnancy/removed fallopian tube later and I'm back to single parenting while she continues to recover at the hospital. I like baby, I really do, but I'm starting to think we're seeing too much of each other.

Final Tour Update

November 9-13 - Interview in McLean, VA and a weekend trip to Raleigh, NC to see a good friend. Baby will be accompanying me again. That should be interesting.

November 14-15 - Interview in New York City. My flight from SLC on Monday leaves 12 hours after my flight from DC gets in on Sunday.