Greetings and Salutations!
OK…
Sorry for the absence/AWOL status again!
LOTS of ‘moving parts’ as of late…
Child Protective Services inspections/interviews
(all passed with flying colors!)
Legal Advisory teams helping with the Adoption
(In progress)
Job searches
(HA!!!! Like I’m ever getting a job again in this fucking Hellscape Economy!)
So needless to say, by the time “Blegg-Time” comes about, all I want is a six pack of cold ones and a bed. It’s like being on extended operations. Case in point: Cleaning the house up with a purpose. Got to make sure the house/crib is clean-clean not “acceptable Infantry Clean” but “Baby Clean/Inspection Clean” which is a whole other level…
Bottle Cleaning
LOTS of bottle cleaning.
I totally forgot that part of fatherhood…
Diapers
Oh holy SHIT the diapers.
Literally and figuratively.
The Muldoon (or Doonie as I call him on the casual) is sooooo full of piss and vinegar, never mind that HORRIFIC green baby-poop.
Interesting side note:
Not sure when ‘things’ changed, but back about 4/5 years ago when we were fighting for and raising Adriana, we used Pampers. I mean they were, at the time, the best that we could tell. No blowouts, plenty of absorption… used the same with MY Spawn back in the day… they were the best…. Even G agrees and is majority surprised AF much as I am…. I mean BOTH of us used to think Pampers were IT, end of story….
Like the Gold Standard
Now?
Notsomucho.
In fact they fucking suck IMO
Shocked the fuck out of both of us TBH
G is still having CogDis as Pampers, for BOTH of us, for ALL THREE Grans were the standard….
Now?
Yeeeeeeeeeah.
To give you an idea:
We had a bunch of Pampers that G had bought back before the whole ‘Incident’. Call it a case of size 3 (outgrown now), and two LARGE size 4 packs (like 60+ per) that we were using. We planned on using them up until I hit CostCo.
Huggies were on sale… like a HUGE crate for short $$$ which is a major consideration. A LOT cheaper than Pampers… Now having been a “Pampers-for-Life” OG Diaper Dude so to speak, I figured we’d try them and see how it worked out. For the cost savings alone donchaknow?
Let me tell you…
Pampers have gone waaaaaay downhill.
When Muldoon fills one with pee, within a few minutes he gets ‘cranky’ and lets you know that the diaper is full and uncomfortable. The Huggies?
Not nary a pee-p LOL
Well, on BOTH diapers, WE can tell when they’re full, as the absorption gel swells up pretty obviously. Like you KNOW he’s got a ‘full load’ on board.
HOWEVER
He’s still ‘dry’ and NOT uncomfortable that I can tell when wearing a Huggie.
That’s a pretty big deal…
So…
I did a test.
Took 1/2 a cup of water.
Dumped one into a Pamper.
One into a Huggie.
The Huggie felt ‘dryer’ than the Pamper on the inside, where it counts… which means it feels better for the baby I suppose.
No wet = good sleep.
YMMV, this’s just MY observations and get nothing out of this. It also means he’s been sleeping through the night on a Huggie, unless he’s hungry… a Pamper, not so much.
Which is more often than not
Yeah… that be him two days ago…
5 months old
28 inches long now, 26 pounds
Let me say that again:
FIVE MONTHS AND 7 DAYS OLD
God, my future grocery bills are going to be fucking crazy!
So yeah, we’re doing well…
Funniest thing that happened during ONE of the inspections so far was I forgot to clean up my ‘ready-mag’ stack on the breakfast counter in the kitchen.
Mind you, there’s no way a kid, never mind a baby, could ever reach these… these are my ‘strategic backups’ i.e. IF someone is stupid enough to try to rush the front door, and I have to retreat, I have a pretty heavy selection of loaded mags ready to go for rapid reloads for a variety of weapons…
Doesn’t everybody?
So the CPS Investigator, on her way out the door noticed them…
-I- (dumbass!) had overlooked them during my prep and ‘cleanup’ (i.e. stashing AAALL the weapons and long guns into the various lockers and safes in the house) I mean I overlooked them as well… I mean for real, they’re part and parcel of the house… it’s be like noticing the couch to me… normal and omnipresent…
Her reaction was “That’s a LOT of spare mags!!!!”
To which I said “Oh yeah! We came back from the range yesterday, and I forgot to put them up after we reloaded them!! My bad!”
She was cool with that.
Then again, when she was in the Museum of Mayhem, and I explained the collection, she was all like “What a cool collection! I assume all of the rifles on the wall are nonfiring?”
Me: “Uhhhh yeah… they’re all display rifles… that’s the ticket… yeah… display rifles.”
Then I showed her the Mauser ScouterGreg had sent me, the unfireable one that I had ‘corked’ the barrel with lead after restoring it, and that satisfied her… Thank the Good Lord she’s NOT an anti-gun witch like the one we had when we went through this with Addy… THAT dyke was a evil anti-gun trainwreck…
Tattooed, attitudinal, anti-male… Jeez… if there was ever a ‘check-box to deny a dad custody’ list, she was going to make sure I failed… sounds bad, but I’m thankful that corrupt fucking former-Judge in Tennessee (disbarred from what I know, it still doesn’t mean he doesn’t owe me a lot) gave custody to the BabyDaddy
THAT fuck?
I’ll let your imaginations run wild
I have ALL his info
End Of Story.
Plus, I have alibis… seems he fucked over SO MANY PEOPLE I’d just be ‘another face in the crowd who wants him dead.’
That suits me jes’ fine’
Jes’ Sayin’
Anyways….
So yeah, the BD has actually been doing a great job with Addy, and we’ve had MULTIPLE vid-chats, and she is MAD excited to be an older sister… she also unfortunately, knows “Mommy is in Heaven”
Glad I didn’t have to have THAT convo… good on the BD for that… I’m proud of him actually… he’s stepped up, far more that I expected, but I also think he knows IF he fucks up, I’ll feed him into a wood chipper, feet first. Seriously tho, he’s doing great. I am proud of him, and pray for the best. We have to meet up as he wants some of the ‘powdered bitch’ for Addy, so well, I’ll update as we go….
Anyways… so that’s the latest. I’ll try to better
Y’all deserve it. I’ll be ranting about the job hunt tomorrow if I get time. Until then
More Later
Big Country
“HORRIFIC green baby-poop.”
So he’s going to be a Marine then? Huh?
No crayons allowed! G’s call, not mine!
I raised my kids wearing cloth diapers and we had a diaper service. They didn’t even want us to rinse them out. Just drop them in the bag-lined hamper and they’d pick them up once a week and drop off a bundle or two of fresh ones. I don’t think diaper services even exist anymore.
We did cloth diapers but washed them at home.
In the long run it saved $$. The only infrastructure change was adding a bidet sprayer to the toilet to rinse the poo out before running them in the washing machine.
We only used the disposables for trips, etc
Watched a killer documentary by Russian hottie that had to hide as the commander wasn’t cool with cameras.
Vans with 300 haul KIA, vans with 200 taped to front windshield haul wounded.
Medics distribute the humanitarian aid to remote villages.
They don’t wear special uniforms and the girl medics are in tears after three are KIA by “silent” Polish mortar.
One looked cool AF in Russian sniper hoodie and Raybans.
BC sounds like you’ll have a fellow MRE taste tester in a few years time! Keep up the phenomenal “kid raising.”
If you feed Muldoon MRE’s, he’ll only crap every three-four days.
Roger that!
And it will come out wrapped in plastic!
Totally understand the busy-busy while raising Muldoon. BTDT me own self.
So, post when you can, no set schedule.
Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford were great Americans.
Charles Lindberg was a raving national socialist. Not a great American until he pulled his head out of his ass and figured out Hitler and the Imperial Japanese were the current main problem and that needed to be solved right soon.
Good aviator. Great aviation engineer. But a total asshat, and probably killed his kid because the kid wasn’t perfect in Charles’ eyes.
That was probably shaken baby syndrome by Lindburg himself. He then orchestrated the whole disappearance of the body and led the investigation himself when the police arrived. They just fell in line with him due to his celebrity. I watched a modern detective analyze the case and he was convinced Lindberg did it and created the whole kidnapping hoax.
Critical thinking is not your strong point. An internet show deduces an American hero offed his kid OFE style. And your dumb ass decides to pollute the airwaves with your brain fart. Next time you decide to pilot a plane across the Atlantic, shoot down a Zero in wartime as a civilian or just get out of bed without your mommy’s help, give us a shout out. Have yourself another matzo Hymie and calm down.
Israel has entered the chat
Heh. Massive diaper blowouts. Heh.
When our chunkoid was about 9-10 months old, someone told us that the frozen creamed spinach at Save-A-Lot was pretty good. We went over, picked up a couple of packages of Bubba’s Creamed Spinach and, sure enough it was pretty good. Gave the kid one bite. He go sooo excited. Gave him some more.
And more
He ate pretty much the whole pound of it…
And yes, it stayed green all the way through his digestive tract.
Good on you folks for taking care of him. Another son with a Dad with a lot of heart.
I can’t stand how adorable he is!!… I would lose it to see that face giggle!!…Trim his nails before he puts your eye out!!… Lol…
While I don’t have any personal experience with diapers lately; my daughter uses the Target store brand. Good price point and they seem to work well. SOYK
Pic of Muldoon oozing cuteness.
He definitely needs some INK!
The Bic pen or sharpie kind, NOT the local tattoo artist!
How about a heart with “BCE” in it?
It’s clear you love that kid, he should show love back. 😉
Muldoon may end up being your size BCE when he’s grown !!
You better start saving to feed that boy when he’s in his teens. 😊
** Memorial Day is a national holiday and everyone kicks back, cranks up the grill and has a few brews.
That’s great but let’s all raise our glasses to the guys who didn’t come home.
Fuck the politicians that put them in harm’s way but they died to protect their buddies, their families and country.
Heroes all !!
AMEN!
We’re happy with “whenever” blog updates. You’ve got a heavy workload, blog when you feel like it. You’re the very essence “persistent perseverance”, good on ya!
good info on the diapers, will be coming useful to us very soon as well!
also, based on just the few photos shown in your posts, the little guy looks more alert and engaged and generally happy in the most recent photo, than he did in the first one a couple (few?) weeks ago. probably having people who actually care is doing him a lot of good!
The attention and stimulation are incredibly important at this age
A co-worker who had kids a little before my daughter arrived two years ago recommended the Costco store brand diapers. They’ve been great, better than a couple of the name brands we’ve tried, and less expensive to boot.
Dry next to the skin is better
We have an in home day care and we use disposables. Usually provided by the parent. And we have a lot of Huggies.
Have fun with this one.
For some babies, the green in the diaper is due to using formula. As soon as my first child switched to cows milk, green was GONE.
The other two were fully breastfed. Loose yellow until I added solids.