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I’m way too old for this

I can remember a time when I would exhaustedly say to Bobby, “Getting Sophie dressed is the absolute worst part of my day.”

And I can remember a time when I would say to Bobby with a look of hopelessness in my eye, “Getting Jonah dressed is the absolute worst part of my day.”

Because it was THIS MORNING.

Joshua, the perfectly compliant firstborn child, just LAID THERE whenever I changed his clothes or diaper.  Sophie, not so much, and Jonah, well, I pretty much feel like I’ve run a marathon after changing him. In fact, now that it’s getting colder, I will leave him in his footie PJs ALL DAY if I can get away with it, because changing his clothes is such an ordeal, a wrestling match, a physical confrontation.

And diapering? Don’t even get me STARTED.  It’s pretty sad when a routine diaper change fills you with dread, but that’s where I am at with my Wiggle Worm.  To quote a friend who also has a wiggly little guy, “Diapering a greased pig would be easier.”   Two days ago, Jonah had an explosive poop and he would NOT be still for me.  The resulting diaper conflagration ended in us both crying and both covered in poop.

So yeah.  Do they make short-lasting baby tranquilizers just for diaper and clothes changes?  Because right now I feel like I need to hire a diaper nanny just to have an extra set of arms to help me get this get clothed!

How did you deal with a wiggly baby at changing time?  I need HALP!

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My name is Jonah

Hi, my name is Jonah. I am nine months old.  Even though neither of my siblings dared to pull up or cruise at this age, I enjoy it immensely.  Mostly I enjoy making my mommy work double-time, but also it’s just FUN!

It’s fun to pull up on the end table:

(and don’t my Mommy’s floors look nice and clean?  She is trying to keep me from putting pine needles and dirt in my mouth!  Which is kind of a bummer because I love them. And also Capri Sun straw wrappers left for me by my big brother and sister. YUM!  Geez, the older I get the more I am realizing that my Mommy is kind of a buzz kill.)

I also like to pull up on the bathtub:

I like to try to pull up on Joshua’s box of cars, too!  It’s fun having big siblings, it provides you with some unique pulling-upportunities.

(And yes, I am wearing shoes with no pants.  You see, my 2nd favorite pasttime – after pulling up – is trying to roll over while Mommy changes my diaper and dresses me.  Sometimes at the end of the day, she will just give up and leave me pantsless.  Since I prefer to be pantsless, I try to give her as much trouble at diaper-changing time as I possibly can.)

But anyhoo – what I really love to pull up on is my diaper pail.  Even though it’s not that tall, it’s full of stinky diapers and the potential for tipping it over is just too tempting!

Mommy dropped a clean diaper on the floor and I got it!! I was really proud. I also wanted to know what it tasted like.

It didn’t taste very good, but it was fun watching  my Mommy run over to get it out of my mouth.  After she took the picture, of course.

Tonight, the coffee table got the best of me.  But I recovered pretty quickly.  Battle scars!! It’s all worth it!  My goal is to be walking by 10.5 months, because that’ll REALLY freak my mom out!

I’ll keep you posted on how it’s going!

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