"The Initiation"

So it's been a little while since I wrote but man this baby business is no joke! I barely have time to shower each day!

I wanted to out myself and let you all know I so get the worst new mom award by far! See what had happened was (hee hee I love saying that) I went over to my mom's to meet a friend there last Friday. Before I left I fed and change the baby. When I went to change him I realized I only had the newborn diapers in his bag which he has outgrow already! He needs his size 1's. but it was all I had so I put it on him anyway, practically cutting off the circulation on his little thighs but I thought for a quick drive home he'd be ok. Usually Zech is great in the car seat, totally sleeps the whole way. So we get in the car and I've been driving about 10 min when he starts screaming his head off. Like. someone. is. killing. him. I feel horrible, get really nervous so I pull over at a gas station. Mind you though, my parents live in P town so I had to find a "safe" place to pull over at...which required driving into Claremont, the next city over. I get in the backseat (oh and FYI, it's RAINING out) and pull him out of his car seat. I find that he had poop all up the back of him because with the diaper being too small it just doesn't work right. And boy was he pissed about it. So I'm sitting in the backseat next to the car seat which is in the middle, so I have very little room to maneuver here and I proceed to change him. I get the little changing station out and place it in my lap because this is the only room we have to do it in...I take off his diaper and he pees, all over me, on the seat, on the changing station. How did I not see that one coming??!! So now I have to wipe up the pee, he's still crying...I finally get a diaper on him (another newborn one!),I try and calm him, and finally he quiets. I get him back in the car seat, give him his paci and drive again...10 min later he starts screaming again. O.M.G! I pull over again. This time he lost his paci...so I stick it back in and he's ok...I drive again...5 min later he's screaming again. W.T.F! I am so close to crying myself at this point. So I pull over at another gas station, crawl in the backseat again (in the rain) and try to feed him. Yup he decides he wants to eat even though before we left my mom's he ate a whole bottle. So I freakin breast feed my kid, in the rain, in the backseat of my car, at a gas station. Glamorous Norina. Finally he's done. I change him again before we have another poop up the back incident but this time I do it standing outside the car and bending over the seat because it's just easier this way although I am getting drenched in the rain. I get him back in his seat...oh yeah and he's naked now because he was drenched in sweat from crying so much and also the poop up the back got on his clothes. So I put him in his car seat in only a diaper, get a blanket over him and drive home. What is usually a 30 min drive from my mom's has turned into a 2 hour and 15 min excursion! I walk in the house and hand Z to Nathanael and said, "give me a minute to collect myself" I can imagine what I looked like, wet from rain, sweat and pee, nerves shot... N was like "where are his clothes?" I changed, took a bathroom break myself and then explained how I failed our child by not packing the proper diapers in his bag in the first place as I cleaned up and dressed poor baby Z, apologizing to him the whole time. Aww poor baby has to be a guinea pig for this first time mama!

I told my family this story and my cousin said, "so what you're saying is you got initiated" Sooo true!

This week I am winging the mama thing alone because poor N threw his back out on Sunday working around the house. Can I tell you how hard it is taking care of a newborn baby and a laid up husband?! I think twins would have been easier :)

Baby Z had his 1 month check up yesterday and weighs a whopping 10.2lbs and is 22 1/2inches long! Way to grow baby! However he is still jaundiced so the ped ordered a bunch of blood tests. Because there were so many blood tests ordered the tech had to take the blood from his arm as opposed to the heel prick they usually do on babies. I was instructed to hold him down. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Zechy screamed bloody murder especially because the tech had a hard time finding his little veins and had to poke both arms before being successful. Zechy's crying, I'm crying and I swear the tech is this close to crying herself! Again, nothing like your baby being in pain to make you feel like shit. Thankfully all the tests came back normal and we just have to wait this jaundice out. More sunlight for Zechy is in order. So in between, feeding, changing, walking, cleaning the baby, the dogs, the house, the husband, I have to find time to get that sunlight in!!!

So that's the latest in the Murphy household. Never a dull moment around here. Can I get my own reality show? I really think it would be a hit :).