July 22 - Three Months Old!

Tucker is 3 months old today!

Our morning started out with "breakfast in bed" (nursing while I'm still half asleep), then a diaper change. We had some lovey-dovey time, and we read an animal farm book from Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Larry : ) as well as some nursery rhymes. Then, it was time for a bath, and I undressed Mr. Tucker. While I was admiring his little tushy, a dark green/brown substance squeezed out from his cute little tushy, and ran down the front of my arm! A plop of it landed on his changing table cover...ironic, huh?

(Austin Kinard...I just wanted you to know that you are NOT alone!!)

We did another diaper change...and I started a load of laundry.

Our next great activity was...the bath! Mr. Tucker has quite a goofy sense of humor - he peed as soon as his little warm body felt the warmth of the bath water. So what did we do next??

Took him out, emptied the water out, and started OVER!

This is my life right now, and I have to say that I think I'm just starting to grasp the art of not getting frustrated at the moments of futility (while balancing the fact that this is a day of JOY - 3 months!) He's pooping! He's peeing! This means that everything is WORKING properly! Yay! We just started formula AND breastmilk and so, I say "hallelujah" that he's pooping! Even IF he's doing it on my ARM...

Later...Todd was changing his diaper and Tucker, in his charming way of saying "HI" to daddy, peed "at" daddy!

So, right now, Tucker is sitting on his bouncey seat in his NEW diaper, under a blanket (no clothes since those got peed on, too), bouncing his little 3-month old body and hitting the little characters on his bouncey seat to make music.

TWO HOURS LATER...

Tucker was sitting on my lap while Todd made our lunch. He made a yummy salad, and I was about to get a good forkful of it when Tucker smiled a BIG smile, then he tooted.

Or, at least, I THOUGHT he just tooted...

Thinking I'd better check his diapers, I turned him over (still on my lap) and saw pretty much what you see above in the photo there. I hadn't even noticed the pumpkin-colored goo all over my left hand. Oh my gosh - what if I hadn't turned him over? No telling when I would have realized "what lie beneath"!!!

The photo above was Todd's brainstorm to get a quick photo before we threw him and his clothes into our bathtub for a dowsing of water and Johnson & Johnson's baby wash!

I totally need a cup of coffee now!

Recently, Todd and I were talking and we wondered if God is grossed out OR excited about our "spiritual blow-outs" as we experience Tucker's poopy blow-outs. Sometimes our spiritual poops are messy, but does God stop loving us when we have a blow-out?

Nope!

Is He grossed out, or disgusted with us?

Nope!

He's probably saying something like, "Cool! Look at my kid's blow-out! I started him on a new diet of grace and holiness...it must be working! That was a GOOD one, Kiddo!"

Praise God!

Jennifer