A few weeks ago I went to the store to pick up three boxes of diapers: size 5 for my toddler, size 1 for Big Guy, and newborn size for Little Guy. In the checkout line, the cashier said, "I see two boxes of diapers. What's the third box? Wipes?"
"Nope," I replied, "It's more diapers. I have three children under three years old."
The woman behind me in line audibly gasped and then whispered, "How?"
So I explained that I had a toddler and newborn twins who wear different sized diapers. She said, "That's funny," and then quickly corrected herself, "I mean, it's not funny for you, but it's funny."
I laughed and said, "No, it's just plain funny." We have to laugh about these things. Life is wild and unpredictable, and if you don't laugh about it, you'll lose your mind.
Moms of newborns are especially good at laughing about poop. It's absurd how much poop we deal with on a daily basis. My boys poop every time they eat. I'll change a poopy diaper before a feeding, and they'll poop again while they're eating, and then they'll poop again twenty minutes later right before they fall asleep. It's straight up ridiculous.
I met a girl at a party once who said she had been to nineteen baby showers in the past year. The very next thing she told me was, "Now all my friends ever talk about is poop." Yup. Sorry.
So I added up all the diapers we change in a 24 hour period. I did not count my daughters diapers. I just counted the twins' diapers. Ready for the big reveal? We went through 25 diapers. All but two of them were poopy. How is that even possible?
When my toddler was a newborn, Rob and I used to take turns changing poopy diapers. We'd keep track of who changed the last one. With the boys, it's not even a conversation. There's just too much poop to even try to keep track.
My toddler summed it up nicely when she looked at the boys and said with a sigh, "Two babies. Poopy diaper."
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