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Blow Out

This was the scene this morning at the Baeten house.

Now try to wrap your brain around the pure physicality of the above pictured feat. Emerson was sitting on the floor in her baby cage. Sitting up. So she literally shot the poop up her back with such force that it created the artistic poop display seen in the picture. Perhaps her diaper was perfectly positioned and it created a “Poop Slalom” of sorts…..but still. Think of the sheer velocity of the poop.

Is that not completely and utterly AMAZING?!?!

Is our baby gifted or what?

As you can imagine, the clean-up on this one fell into the category known as “industrial.” There was no way that any number of wipes was going to adequately take care of the mess. So we did what we could with the wipes, stripped down the baby, and prepared to hose her down in the tub.

On the way to the tub, she peed on Troy.

Then we decided to go out to breakfast and she spilled an entire glass of ice water in his lap (totally my fault, I left the water within reach).

It has been a moist day for Troy.

Hooray! Emerson crawling! This is her second triumphant crawl (we got it on video on attempt #2). The baby crying in the background is Emerson’s baby friend, Baby Simon (2 months old).

In the baby world of developmental milestones, Emerson has had a bang-up week.

Below is a brief summary of events:

Sunday October 4th, 2009: On the drive back from Chicago.

Learned how to drink out of a regular grown-up straw.

Up until this defining moment, the only luck we have had with getting Emerson to consume liquids was either directly out of the boob or little sips out of a normal cup. There was a definite boycott of anything that resembled an artificial nipple in any way – bottle, sippy cup – you name it. While this new straw drinking skill currently falls into the category of entertaining novelty, rather than functional life-sustaining food transport system, it is definitely a step in the right direction. Also not to be trivialized is the adorable “lip puckered straw sucking face.” Deadly cute.

Developed the Baby Indian War Cry Game.

Often when Emerson was making her wide array of silly baby noises, Troy or I would paddle her mouth to create the “Vibrato Baby War Cry.” I have to say that we found it amusing to an irrational degree. What made this past Sunday different is that Emerson began actively participating in the game. Now, when we bring our hand to our mouth she will consistently initiate her noise making so that we can make the Baby War Cry. Very very funny. She has even gone so far as to attempt the War Cry herself. She is moderately successful, but again, very very funny. What a clever girl. We are fairly certain that this is an early indication of her blossoming GENIUS.

Friday October 9th, 2009: Full-on forward crawling!

As mentioned in my previous post, this past week was also the week of “Mom’s stupidest and most inconvenient injuries.” As such, I spent Friday crawling around my house. Crawling to the bathroom. Crawling to get diapers. Crawling to the back door to let the dogs in and out. It turns out that extended periods of crawling is actually pretty hard on your knees. However, it is my theory that this extended period of maternal crawling resulted in accelerated BABY CRAWLING! Ridiculously exciting, with a small shadow of horror – as we know now that IT IS ALL OVER and we are now entering into the period of “Banged Up Baby (when they are mobile enough to be big trouble, but not coordinated enough to avoid smashing their faces into every possible injury inducing surface).”

And just as we thought that we couldn’t possibly squeeze any other monumental milestone into the week……

This morning (Sunday October 11th, 2009) she pulled herself up to a standing position by herself.

Let the wild rumpus begin!