Presents

Want to see what I bought for my niece's birthday? It is a charm bracelet. Pretty, yes? Young and feminine, I thought. I wouldn't mind having one of these myself. Got it from this shop on etsy.
And my parents' anniversary (although obviously edited to reflect their name, wedding year.) You can customize this! So I picked a black background, with a red monogram and white lettering. This will match their house.)

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New Baby (yet to be 'named' on the blog) is the most poopin' baby I have ever had. Let me explain: He just poops so much! I have not once in three weeks changed a wet-only diaper. Now, there is not a copious amount of poop. Just a little. But still! And I change him at every single feeding, so this is about every 2 hours. I am not keen on the idea of waking him up to change his diaper, when he is up so often anyway to eat.

Also, I think one forgets things about babies when you put a few years in between pregnancies. Because breast milk poops are the color of a yellow-orange crayola. It just doesn't seem like a color that should exist in nature, you know?

Anyway, all this diaper changing was making his bottom red. Already! Gah. And I can't stand diaper rash. Just one teeny red patch and I get all anxious. First I thought it was the wipes. So we changed wipes to a hypoallergenic kind. That didn't seem to work, so we made our own a la the Internets, only I used an organic baby wash and no oil. This seemed to help for a little bit. And all the while I was slathering him with Boudreaux's Butt Paste, which has worked miracles on my babies to date. But it wasn't. WORKING.

Then I consulted Dr. Google again and found out about Triple Paste. It took about 24 hours, but then the rash has gone and hasn't reared its ugly head again. It was kind of pricey, about $18.00 a tub at Target, but worth it. I have never used it before, have you?