Escrow, Lazboy, and poopy baths

Well, everyone knows how I love to multi task, but today was a bit much.

So, we had a couple of things we wanted to get taken care of before the baby came-get a reclining rocker for the front room and refinance our house. Both of equal importance! But the chair came late, the refi took longer to go through, and the baby came early. Today was a result of all that bad timing : )

Lazyboy said they would drop off the chair between 11 and two. I can't understand how we can coordinate moon landings, nuclear power, and genetic cloning, but things like the common cold or plotting a delivery route are beyond our capabilities. We had to give Evelyn her first little sponge bath and we just decided to do it in the middle of the afternoon, even though we knew the chair could come and she could be screaming the whole time. In the middle of all this coordinating an escrow signing apparently takes multiple phone calls all at the wrong time. Oh well. So in the middle of her feeding we realized she needed to be changed. Bard took this one for the team, but I came hurrying out of the bathroom when I heard him yelling. Our dainty little darling had a diaper full of poop, which is nothing abnormal for her, and when Bard was sliding the new diaper in she peed all over it-the non absorbant part of course. So he started to take that one away and as he did she pooped everywhere. In case you didn't know (and even though you probably didn't want to) newborn poop goes everywhere! It went right up her back and all over her shirt, she started screaming, the phone rang-it was escrow- and without thinking Bard picked her up to comfort her and got poop all over his sweater. Gross!!!! We realized it was a good time for a bath. We put her on her little sponge and wiped her down, she hated it and screamed until all the sudden she got a calm look on her face and quieted down. Right before pooping everywhere. The phone rang, escrow again-they can sense poop. You see, the average newborn poops 5 times a day, but can go up to 15 times a day. Our daughter is in the 12-14 range. Yes, she is an above average pooper. We are very proud : ) So we cleaned her up again, fed her and as soon as we were done Lazyboy showed up. Why? Because it was 2pm. Escrow called again. We got the chair set up called escrow back and put Evelyn down for a nap. But not before one more poop.

I would like to say this is the day in the life of having a newborn, but it was only 2 hours.