Friday, February 13, 2009I'm Talking to You, You Wimp
Now that we are no longer spending enough money on Pampers to keep Proctor & Gamble executives rolling in the hookers and blow, I have a confession to make:
Mr. Husband has changed more diapers than me.
Yes, you read that right. Despite the fact that I have always been the primary nighttime care provider, and the fact that I was home with Alexis for the first six months of her life, he changed her diaper more often than I did. Easily.
Weekends? He changed nearly every one. Last change of the day? He got those ones, too. The really stinky ones? Almost 100% his problem.
That part wasn't exactly his doing, or my doing. It was all Alexis. For as long as the kid could speak, she has been saying, "Daddy, I poopy," and asking him to change her. She could be sitting with me on the floor playing with Play-Doh while Mr. Husband was all the way upstairs doing something constructive, and she would stomp her way all the way to him to get changed, without so much as a whisper to me.
I didn't exactly try to stop her. I know a good thing when it passes me by.
Real men change diapers and I totally married a real man.
(It's Play-Doh, people. Don't be getting any crazy ideas in your head.)
On This Day . . .
On this day . . . Gas was $1.99 per gallon. We all think it is a MASSIVE bargain because not long ago, it was $4 per gallon.
On this day . . . The Pens beat the best team in the league in a shootout. It was OUTSTANDING.
On this day . . . Alexis shocked me by asking to wear jeans and a t-shirt for the third day in a row. Could the dress/skirt obsession be coming to an end?
On this day . . . The nation was in the midst of a major economic crisis. It has reached the point where if someone has a healthy family and any job, they have no reason to complain.
On this day . . . An economic stimulus plan was passed. We can only hope it helps create new jobs and works to lessen the blow of this crisis.
On this day . . . It was unseasonably warm. Nearly 70 degrees, in fact. I would have liked to have spent the afternoon on a nice long walk, but Alexis said she had to go to the bathroom the minute we got to the park. The walk had to be abandoned.
On this day . . . A major storm rolled in. Buh-bye warm weather, and hello February. Can't say that I really wanted to see you again.
On this day . . . A woman who gave birth to octuplets was in the news. She was in the news partly because the octuplets put her at a total of 14 kids, but mostly because she seems to be a bit cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, if you know what I mean. I think it would be safe to predict that we'll be seeing her for a while, as her only means of income appears to be whoring out all her kids to the media.
On this day . . . Alexis' major concern at bedtime was that Cody would try to eat her computer. Actually, he seems to have lost the last of his puppy teeth, so he's not been eating the house as much lately.
On this day . . . Bruce Springsteen and Kelly Clarkson topped the charts. I think he might be old enough to be her grandpa.
On this day . . . We spent $2.50 on a jar of peanut butter, despite a nation-wide salmonella scare. We're totally living on the edge.
On this day . . . I adored Miss Alexis, and I look forward to comparing notes when she reads this in a few years.
