Baby Poop: the organic paint stripper

The other night we made quite a discovery. It was 3 AM and we had been peacefully sleeping when Aubrey woke up and decided she was hungry. Marc got up to give her a quick diaper change while I continued half dozing, waiting for him to bring her back so I could feed her. Suddenly, I heard a panicked yell from the nursery.

"Is everything okay?" I called out sleepily. There was a long pause. "... Yeah ... " he responded, very convincingly. That was good enough for me, and I returned to my half conscious state.

A full ten minutes passed before Marc reappeared in the doorway holding out a measuring tape. "Did you know Aubrey can poop five feet?" he asked. I blinked sleepily at him.

Apparently in the middle of the diaper change, just as Marc was about to remove the dirty diaper, our sweet baby decided to relieve herself again. Marc had a premonition and pulled the dirty diaper back up to cover her, but he underestimated Aubrey's awesome abilities. She pooped so forcefully that it arched over the top of the diaper, cleared the lip of the changing table, and landed a full five feet away on the floor. Hence, Marc's panicked yell.

It wasn't until the next morning that we discovered an interesting property of baby poop. Marc thought he'd cleaned up all the poop, but apparently some had oozed under the changing pad cover. In just a few short hours, it managed to completely strip the paint off my changing table. We no longer underestimate either Aubrey or the destructive power of baby poop.

Aubrey's pooping face

In other news, our sweet little baby girl turned one month old. Her favorite activities include eating, sleeping, and staring at ceiling fans. She's started smiling in response to Mommy and Daddy, and she weighs a whopping eleven pounds. She is certainly a cutie.