Sir Nottaguy-Imadad is a wonderful husband, dad, and grandfather, however he has always had this long-standing demand that he never be asked to change a diaper. (He changed Jessica's diaper once when she was about 18 months old--she stood up and walked out of it, and he declared that the one and only time!)
Yesterday that all changed!!! Eva and David Riley had to be picked up from the babysitter about 2 1/2 hours before I was due to get off of work, that meant that Gweag (Sir's grandfather name) HAD to do it. The babysitter was really good and had changed Eva's diaper before Sir left with them, but ....
About 45 minutes after they got home, Eva started fussing and squirming. Sir started talking to her and she just whimper-smiled at him. He decided to check her diaper by pulling the leg out a little AND stuck his finger into a pile of poo that was creeping to the edge!! (As he is telling me this last night he had the best "little disgusted boy" look I've ever seen!)
Sir became Eva's knight in shining armor--he braved the diaper bag to find a diaper and wipes and, also, pulled the kitchen trash can in beside him (to throw the diaper in and just in case he felt the need to hurl--his words not mine), and proceeded to clean her little self up and put a dry diaper on her.
His final words on the subject were "What else was I going to do?? She couldn't sit in THAT for an hour and a half until you got home!"
I'm sooo proud of him!!! (I did promise him that we would try not to make a habit of putting him in that position!)
4 comments:
Ed is crazy about changing poo-poo diapers either but he will do it if he HAS to and he doesn't mind changing just the wet ones.
Some of those poo-poo ones are almost more than I can stand!
One day, as I was changing one, it was so bad that Ed stood there and held Jaylon's burpy cloth over my nose! *smile*
Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Hats off to the daycare/nursey workers, hospital aides & nursing home STNAs.
Way to go Dad - Any old time you have a hankering to do that again, I'll save one for you. :)
Grandpa are the best, aren't they?! This had me laughing!
Mrs. Nurse Boy
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