Friday, June 29, 2012

Gross Stuff II

I came across a recipe for shrimp-stuffed chicken.



I was like...

Why?

S**t.

          This blog should be called "Ooo, Me Too!" since I basically never have anything to write about until someone else says something interesting that I can copy.
          My friend Danielle (another recent mom) posted about her daughter's bath time and bowel movements coinciding (an unfortunate and counterproductive event). I thought, "Wait, me too! I know about that too!"
          Fortunately for her, her little girl is about 9 months old, so her waste evacuation process is probably a little more developed and more easily recognizable than my 3-month old's. He's still at the stage where it's just a grunt or two, a funny face, and THERE it is. We have to time his baths strategically around his usual diaper-soiling times.
          I drew him a bath one morning without timing it and it was quite time-consuming. I was looking forward to giving him a warm, gentle, relaxing bath (I think I enjoy his bath time more than he does...), and had visions of a perfectly smooth and uninterrupted event. I should have known it wouldn't be smooth because a) I thought it would be, and b) Tom wasn't home so I was doing it by myself. 
          Everything began well...until he defecated in his first bath. Then in his second bath. And then again ON ME when he was finally out of the tub for good (after a final, successful bath) so that I now needed to bathe myself. Of course during it all, he was screaming his head off because I had to keep removing him from the tub to clean it and he was cold and wet and uncomfortable and since I'm his servant I am supposed to keep him perfectly comfortable at all times. So I was kneeling over the big tub rinsing out his baby tub and laughing/cursing while he was swaddled in a big towel on the floor and howling, and although I was talking soothingly to him trying to calm him down I was really just adding to the din. 
          I still think he planned the whole thing.    


Friday, June 1, 2012

Gross Stuff

Anyone else find the idea of bacon-wrapped shrimp kinda gross?