Sunday, June 29, 2008

出口 Rumble 101

Dan and Andi sat down to eat lunch with Kai in his chair like any other Sunday afternoon lunch. Kai had been crabby, and cranky, and fussy all morning. So cranky that Dan had to take him for a walk in his stroller just to get him out of the house. They got rained on.
Kai was playing with a toy, semi-contently, when suddenly he grew quiet. Dan and Andi looked down from their scrambled eggs and saw that all-too-familiar grin on Kai's little face. With a short grunt and a flex of every muscle in his body he did it. He rumbled out the 出口 (de guchi - or in English, "exit") Yes, that is what they call it - "a de guchi rumble." Of course, it happens daily, but this particular day Kai hadn't rumbled all morning.
Dan said to Andi "He just rumbled, I'll change it when we're done with lunch."
Bad choice by Dan.
No, Andi didn't argue with him, it was just a bad choice.
As the two were finishing lunch and a quick piece of chocolate for dessert, Dan reminded Andi, "He still has a dirty poocher (short for poop catcher)."
"Oh yeah," Andi said with a small grin, "should we change that poocher?" she said to Kai.
As Andi pulled Kai out of his chair the extent of the the damage was becoming apparent. The 6" dark yellow spot on his sleeper above his left hip. The more faint, yet still obvious spot on the fabric of the chair. Oh yeah - blowout had occurred.
Andi gingerly carried the now relieved (and oddly warmer) Kai to his changing area. Cautiously she unbuttoned the sleeper, pulled his legs out, now seeing more of the damage. Barely able to control her laughter she opened the decimated diaper and lost all ability to not laugh. "Dan you have to see this!"
With a quick glance Dan also lost control . The diaper was filled to capacity, legs coated, belly button filled in, and back smeared with you-know-what. Now the important thing was how to proceed. The options:

1. Diaper wipes - lots and lots of wipes
2. A wet rag that would later be properly disposed of with the other bio-hazardous materials
3. A full stripdown and a hasty dunk in the tub

A dunk in the bath seemed to be the best option at the time. Dan quickly loaded Kai's small bathtub and Andi very, very carefully carried the squishy, squirming pile of boy and poo into the bathroom. Dan helped the little man-cub stand in the water as Andi wiped down his cream-coated bum. The water ran yellow with poo.
The crisis was over - the blow out would be completely contained with a load of laundry. In went the sleeper, in went the cover of Kai's chair, the rag, the towel-- all the contaminated pieces thrown into the spin cycle to (hopefully) return to their former state of cleanliness.

Thus is life with an infant. It appears that the nearly-five-month-old is totally oblivious to the chaos that he has thrown his parents' lives into, but he knows who's in charge...

And hopefully these parents can move past poop stories soon... other stuff really does happen here. Until the next blow out...

1 comment:

Andi Joy said...

So that was the Daddy version of Adventures in Poopland. I (Andi) later discovered that I had poop all over my shirt and then Kai had another blow out. Hope this doesn't mean I need to find a different brand of diapers...we just bought a BOX of them!