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| What I learned today: After receiving and opening Christmas packages in the mail, don't just dump all the packing peanuts into the garbage can. This will help you avoid picking up, at 10 pm in 40 degree, windy, rainy weather, the dozens of packing peanuts that didn't make it into the garbage truck. 
Lesson learned!
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| Interesting article I found on the front page on cnn.com... almost a testimony! 
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| Frustrations! 
The Anti-Trinity of diaper changes are Spit-up, Peepee, and Poopie. Whatever you do to prevent any of them from occurring from the time you put the baby down to the time you velco shut the new, clean diaper, it's almost a certainty that you will fail. Of course, even though I realize this, that doesn't lower my expectations for an enemy-free diaper change! Members of this Triumvirate Enemy like to attack in a pronged formation, meaning that when you're busy combatting one, the other two are very likely to catch you unprepared. Any advice would be appreciated!
Spit-up sometimes gets reswallowed, but more times than not, because the baby is lying down, the spit-up comes streaming out and down the baby's chin and neck, soaking the outfit and necessitating a change of clothes and a neck cleansing. There isn't much I have found to be effective against it, except being sure to burp the baby as much as possible (but it still may not be enough).
If you've ever seen Riding in Cars with Boys (I think that's the title), you've seen what can happen when a baby boy's "unit" is left to go commando during a diaper change. I don't remember if any other movies show this. Anyway, yes you can get peed in the face. Worse, it can go in the baby's face, or anywhere else because it's a bit like a loose hose shooting water wherever it pleases. Because of this, I usually take the precaution of placing a tissue over the "package", just in case. But even with the tissue there, the pee can still follow gravity's pull and run down the baby's body. Once on the changing pad it will go up the baby's back and onto his clothes, requiring a new outfit and a full wipedown.
The final member of this evil troika is Poopie. This one is truly heinous for me because there is very little I have been able to do to prevent it. Before changes I will often set the baby down for a few minutes to let the gas and/or poopie out. Of course this only works if the baby is not in the habit of waiting until you remove his diaper before doing his business. In the normal course of a diaper change, you will have to wipe his "wholy" area  and apply diaper rash cream, if needed. (We prefer Desitin Original, which has more zinc oxide and is a lot thicker than Desitin Creamy.) Now, just imagine -- for me to apply the cream properly, I have to move closer to see better. Anyway, it sometimes happens that right in the middle of this process, the evil Poopie enters the world with a violence and force the likes of which you have never personally seen. And when things move at high velocity, they tend to go farther. Meaning, on your clothes, on the floor, on the bed, or even in your face! Fact: Any liquid or solid traveling over 20 miles an hour can have a surprising and not-so-pleasing impact on your face.
Boo on Spit-up, Peepee, and Poopie! 
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| Between work, hanging with visiting family, CSNTM work, new business ideas, and of course taking care of the twins, there's just not much time for posting these days. Here are some pictures I've been meaning to post, though.
A few months ago in the midst of a crazy last-minute business trip, I made it to the Final Four in Indianapolis. Here's the proof! Yes, sadly, it was the end of the road for UCLA.
I don't have a foot fetish, but baby feet are so cute, especially when next to adult feet...
Now that's what I call "Feeding on the Word"!!! 
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