The Art of the Diaper

CC has been entertaining me with stories about his baby experiences.  Perhaps he intends them more as informational and/or venting, but I find them entertaining nonetheless, esp. after my brain gets ahold of them and adds its own twist!  His biggest obstacle continues to be changing diapers, which happens to coincide with my biggest fear of having a baby, so this resonates with me on a very personal level.  He is still trying to master the art of having a boy.  And just when he worked through ways to prevent getting “shot,” his wife adds some additional step to the task, and he gets hit some other way.

Her latest thing is putting Boudreaux’s Butt Paste on his son’s backside to help treat and prevent diaper rash.  This causes an extra challenge, because it takes time to rub that on his little backside, and when you’re changing a diaper, time is not a luxury you have.  CC has worked to keep his son covered during this process, but his son squirms and kicks so much that sometimes the best laid plans go awry.

But there is one tried and true method to calming his son and getting him to lay still.  He loves Christian praise and worship music.  Perhaps it’s because they listened to that exclusively during his wife’s pregnancy.  Or perhaps it’s just a God thing.  Either way, his son calms down and just enjoys the music, allowing CC to get in and get out.  When he told me this, I said that it sounded like the old phrase “Jesus take the wheel,” except it’s “Jesus take the diaper!”