I don't have much to blog about today except that we're either tired... or delusional... or have that halo effect that I've been reading about regarding newborns.
Reason I think "something's up" with us is because we are finding the silliest things hilarious about Mercer. ie: his HUGE LOUD BOOMING burps after he eats.... the shooting streams during diaper changes... and the chunky mustard being shot from his tiny little bum hole when we change his diaper. (we now have to watch it at both ends). I think I was reading that something to do with the "fresh air" of taking the diaper off stimulates his bowel function. I probably shouldn't talk about his poo (these will be great stories when he's 17 and wanting to take someone to the prom!) -- but the many stages of poo are quite fascinating.
For the past couple of days I've thought he is a little tiny play-dough factory... you know... you put it into a form and you squeeze it out into pasta noodle looking things? now, the color is quite bright yellow and the consistancy is more fluid but a little chunky... and it shoots out quick!
It's a challenge to get the diaper on and off quickly. To try to do it before he soils a clean diaper with the voracious force of a missle and/or before he shoots a stream of pee all over the diaper, his clothes, the blanket that we have down on the floor for his changes (yes - he misses the diaper pad that we change him on, of course)!
What did we do today? I got a nice work-out in at the hotel gym after breakfast. We retained an attorney early afternoon. We went to babies r us to buy a frame for the carseat & turn it into a stroller (may sound weird, but I think it's the "smallest footprint" option that we can do and which will work for the plane ride home / through the rest of his days in an infant car seat) Honestly some of this bothers me in terms of how much stuff you go through & then get rid of shortly after. As an added bonus with getting this frame thing - I think that it's less stuff to cart around / may actually be easier on us when we do take an infant carseat / stroller somewhere.
After that trip to the store, we continued into downtown Colorado Springs & wandered around (this is SO "us" as we love to check out the townscape of any city we visit). There's really nothing to post picture-wise except me in front of this cool metal and rock sculpture that I wanted to snap a shot of - but since this is Mercer's trip - we had to get him in the shot. He's in the baby sling (which is partially covered by a blanket). Sorry you can't see him; it was too chilly for us to take him out! But you can see the moutain range in the background. It's everywhere you look... beautiful!
Oh well, we'll try to do better tomorrow regarding photos.
Friday, we have a pediatrician appt at 8:15... I'm having a girl's afternoon with the birth mother around 2... and in between, we need to begin working on lodging for our "move" to Denver on Monday. Oh yeah - this was also just completed within the last hour: Todd's flight home on Wednesday was booked. : -( but, so was a flight for my amazing / stellar / terrific friend Susan to come out here on Wednesday. : - ) She's going to come out here to hang with Mercer and me... and to help out / help me get some zzzz's.
Enjoy that parting thought: chunky mustard. Boy these are the precious moments, huh? (and - as Mercer gets to be an adult... these bodily functions will definitely NOT be cute!)
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2 comments:
Ah..the days of mustard poo. I'm so very happy for you guys! He is beautiful!
Hello Mom & Dad, I was researching your very unique name of Mercer. What I found surprised me. It is a very rare boy's first name. It's origins is Middle English, meaning "storekeeper". Middle English is the language that was descended from Old English, but strongly influenced by French. It was spoken from about the 12th century to the 15th century.
At first I thought well thats okay, BUT when you really think about what a store keeper was in those times, they were the first entrepreneurs, important business men, people that supplied our every need. They were the life line for people to get food and supplies in areas that did not have 7-ll's or Publix on every corner. So as he grows up he will know that his name is very important and the people that first held that name were key people in every town. They were people that were steadfast and reliable and had everyone's best interest at heart as they stocked the shelves of their store. Pretty deep huh, :) I pray The Groves Family have a very blessed day!
Hugs and Kisses from the Wright Family XXx OOo (the little kiss and hug are for Mercer)
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