The day I cried over poop.

A few days ago, I was in the kitchen putting away dishes while Calix sat in his highchair eating his peanut butter and jelly sandwich and drinking his apple juice. I heard grunting so I looked over at him..and that's when I saw it. Shit was dripping down his highchair. I kinda did the 'oh my god oh my god' dance a bit trying to figure out my next move. I pulled him out of the chair and sure enough it was smeared all up and down his legs..on his back..the shit was everywhere. I carried him upstairs Superman style.. carefully undressed him while gagging..and ran him a tub of water. The poor guy. I called Orion after Calix was cleaned up..but before the chair was and screamed "THERE'S SHIT EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!". He laughed, of course..and I started crying. He said I could leave the mess for him and he'd clean it up..but come on, he wouldn't be home for another 2 hours..and I'm *not* leaving that there. I covered my nose with my shirt and clorox wiped the everliving daylights out of that chair. Sure, I felt silly for crying..but it's *never* happened to me before.



Anyway..why do I bring this up? Because the Luvs diapers I bought a few days ago as "just in case we run out" diapers..ended up being different than the Luvs I normally buy (he was wearing one at the time of the highchair incident). The ones I usually get have ya know..all of that blue stuff all over them..and they're just fantastic. These? Plain white..and have like..a purple lining. The package was *exactly* the same as what I usually get..so what gives? The purple lined diapers failed me once again! I got Calix out of his crib this morning and went to change his diaper. The absorbent bead things? Were EVERYWHERE. Soaked in pee and stuck to my child. It made for a huge mess on his changing table, lemme tell ya. I'm way more than fed up with this shit..and that Luvs guarantee? Yeah..I don't keep my receipts most of the time..and the package was thrown out long ago (yeah, I stack diapers in the changing table..don't keep packages around.). These stupid stupid diapers are like..an off-brand cheap ass diaper..only, I paid the same amount I'd normally pay for the diapers I actually like. The diapers that don't make my days harder than they have to be.

I have 2 choices from where I see it. I can either throw them out and say goodbye to 10 bucks and be wasteful..or I can use them only during the day..when he's not going to crap his pants (and everything else around him). All I'm sayin is I'm tired of changing my kid's diaper and being thrown into the pit of "OH MY GOD!!!!".