Flipping Out

Diaper changes and drying Troy after baths have both become a chore now. And by chore, I mean something so difficult that they are feared and loathed. We don’t even attempt them by ourselves anymore because it’s virtually impossible to do. At least not without a vast amount of patience. 

Why? Because Troy has decided that every time we put him on his back that he must immediately flip over and stand up. If we try to hold his legs, then he sticks them straight out. If we try to bend them, then he arches his back and lifts himself bodily upward. If we try to pull him back, he’ll latch onto the bed and hang on with his iron grip. 

The only thing that we’ve found to work is to gang up on him, where one of us lays on top of him while the other attempts to work on him. Even then his bottom half is still writhing and twisting the entire time! We’re exhausted by the time it’s finally over. The entire time he’s giggling and laughing as if it’s a game.