I’m so in love with my new nephew.
I say that like I have an old one too. I don’t have any but him. In fact, he’s the first baby I’ve ever had contact with under 6 months and oh my is it lovely. Everything he does is just so darn cute.
So cute it’s made me late posting two days in a row.
It appears that when I have the choice between posting at my regular time and feeding, burping, and changing a baby, I choose the latter. And it’s not because I don’t enjoy posting. It’s because as it turns out, I really like babies. At least ones that are related to me. And absolutely everything my nephew does is cute. When he cries, when he poops, when he eats: cute, cute, cute.
This is astounding news. Back in the day, my blog featured posts about a variety of horrifying thoughts regarding babies. I would include a link to an example of one such post here, but I’d really rather not lead you to it. I was a much more… crass… writer then. I didn’t want to go near babies. I had no interest in them and even thought it would be funny to have a serial killer name called “Shake n Bake”.
For the record, I no longer find that even remotely funny.
I must say that nothing could prepare me for how poopy they are. I’ve often heard stories, but I thought they were just embellishments. And as a master embellisher myself, I tend to keep an eye out for exaggeration. But this baby is a great pooping machine. At one point when his diaper was full, my mother and I went to change it only to find that he was still in the process – and would be for another 5 minutes while we sat there with him. There were not enough rags, wipes, and washcloths in the house to handle that grand explosion.
The kid’s like a pasta maker: what goes in comes instantly back out.
I find it hilarious. I really am tickled by all of it, which is why I was more than happy to be with him 10 hours yesterday, wake up unshowered, and hold him again until his parents came to pick him up. …at which time I went to the store to buy adorable baby things. I thought I had trouble buying baby stuff before, but it was nothing compared to how bad it is now that we’ve been properly introduced.
It’s a good thing I’m headed back to my place in a few hours. Because if I hung out long enough and laid around with the little bugger, I might never get a post done on time again.
Thank goodness I only rent him. ♣
















