Tricksy Babieses.....

So, we got Aidan home from the hospital yesterday, safe and sound. It's funny....as one friend told me, "(my son) was an angel at the hospital, and we thought 'Hey, we can do this!'. Then we got him home and he screamed for 6 weeks." He's right...babies in the hospital lull you into a false sense of security. Then, when you step foot into your happy new family home, they gurgle "Got you now, rookie beyotch."

But the first night is over, and we're all still alive, which is pretty much all I can ask for. Aidan has discovered that sucking on my pinkie is the most calming thing for him, and that kid is STRONG. I feel bad for Mom, he's sucking so hard my fingernail hurts. He has learned two new tricks: the Circle of Goo trick and the Playdough Butt trick. The Circle of Goo begins with him being hungry. That makes him mad, so he cries, which tenses his muscles, which makes him poop. That upsets him further, because now he's hungry AND has warm poop squished all over, so he cries harder and spits up. Which, of course, makes him scream even more because now his stomach is empty when he was already hungry, he's covered in poop, he's also covered in spit-up, and he's hot from crying. Good stuff. The second trick (as told to me by Mom, I was passed out elsewhere), the Playdough Butt, involves him pooping just enough to make us open his diaper. Once said diaper is removed, and while he is being cleaned, BLAM-O....poop extrusion factory. Everywhere. Old diaper, new diaper, clothes....Thank god for Oxy-Clean.