Confessions of a Rookie Dad....

So I thought I would post this note that I sent myself from my iPhone the night before we left the hospital. It's a pretty funny story and had the nurses the next morning in stitches from laughing so hard at what had happened. I'm going to put this one in his baby book. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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From: Joshua Cork
Date: Oct 17, 2007 1:20 AM
Subject: Confessions of a Rookie Dad
To: Joshua Cork

Baby notes
Holy crap - literary!
Wow, so the veteran nurse just left the room at midnight after there was a very audible poop. She placed the baby on Leann's chest and said something like "he may need to be changed" :) and then quickly exited the room.

Well mom quickly turned hat responsibility to me. So I took on the task by placing him on the end of Leann's bed and taking him out of not one but two swaddle blankets that he was in (he was cold so we used two blankets - this important later). So now Ethan is on top of his two receiving blankets and at the bottom of moms bed. I begin to change the diaper, by taking off the old one that i knew was soiled -
rookie mistake number one - I didn't get the other diaper ready. So here I am opening the diaper when I realize that, good lord, this is the poop of the century! I see what appears to be black lava flowing
from the rear of the cutest little tush you have eve seen! At this point I'm a bit she'll shocked, you know... A bit of deer in the headlights look from me. There is so much black lava everywhere that
I don't know where to start wiping. I take clean diaper number one (on yes there will be more than one clean diaper in this story) and place it under Ethan placing the lava filled diaper number one on the
floor. I begin to wipe down said lava flowing bum when I realize that I will need to get another diaper because clean diaper Buber one has now become lava filled diaper number two/changing mat. I turn around to get diaper number two and release Ethan's legs - rookie mistake number two. I turn back around to find his heel now covered in black lava! So I ask Leann, whom up until this point has been a passive observer, to get in the game and grab a leg while I wrangle the poop covered leg and wipe it down. Finally I get the poop off of little Ethan's heel and I turn around to throw the wide on top of the diaper which is on the ground when I turn back around I'm stunned to see a jet of liquid flying just past my face and over my left shoulder…. Apparently my son also had to pee… a lot! I grab the only other thing I have in my hand (a cold wet wipe) and proceed to cover his peeper. Being that the device I choose to cover it was both cold and wet scared him a bit I think and really helped move along the emptying of the bladder! Remember how I said that he was swaddled in two blankets? Well Mr. Ethan pee'd so much that it soaked through not one, but both of the blankets that he was swaddled in… along with Leann's top blanket on her bed, her sheet, and her fitted sheet… right down to the plastic covered mattress of the bed she was sleeping in! Leann and I had to then push the little emergency button on her bedside controller to call in the nurses…. Yup, nurses plural… two of them had to come in and completely strip the bed and remake it…. At 1am!

Sent from my iPhone.

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So that's my story... hope you enjoyed it!